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Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario & Jake Abel—Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief—1/14/10

Logan Lerman: Acting’s the hobby...But the art is in filmmaking...My goal in life is to be a good filmmaker.
Harrison Ford—Extraordinary Measures—01/08/10

I was fascinated by Sky King, until I went to the studio one day with my Dad and met a pudgy little man, who didn’t fit my image of Sky King. But I think that tweaked my interest in the whole business of show business.
Richard Linklater & Christian McKay—Me and Orson Welles—12/2/09

[Linklater:] You can feel...him pushing the boundaries or finding maybe there aren’t any boundaries to his own genius and to his behavior and his appetites. You can almost feel them expanding as you watch him.
John Woo—Red Cliff, Hard Boiled, The Killer—10/16/09

There’s so many heroes that I admire, like the one general called Zhao Yun, who is saving a little baby in the middle of all the battles...I used him for Chow Yun-Fat in Hard Boiled.
Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener & Dave Eggers—Where the Wild Things Are—9/30/09

Spike Jonze: 'That was sort of the goal of the movie, really, just to try and capture the feeling, to make a movie from the point of view of a nine-year-old. So the viewer is for that period of time experiencing the world from that vantage point.'
Michael Stuhlbarg—A Serious Man—9/29/09

I’d like to believe that he’s wondering the same questions we are: 'Why is this happening to me? And how do I get myself out of this situation?' He’s tryin’, y’know?
Mike Judge—Extract, Office Space—8/21/09

I had made a[n] X-ray machine for science fair in high school...And then read somewhere that it could actually make you sterile. And then I built this big lead box. And so that was kind of in my mind, about protecting the testes, for a while.
Bobcat Goldthwait—World's Greatest Dad, Shakes the Clown—8/12/09

I know when I die, my obituary photo is going to be me in a police uniform standing next to a talking horse. I mean, I know that. I know that that’s the clip they’re going to play on Entertainment Tonight.
Davis Guggenheim—It Might Get Loud, An Inconvenient Truth—7/24/09

That’s my mantra. You’ve got to find a way to make things personal.
Hugh Dancy—Adam—7/24/09

It's really a foray for him, into a world that he doesn't know, on many levels. I don't know that he's ever necessarily kissed a girl, so there's that...I kind of credit Adam with the bravery to pull it off.
Max Mayer—Adam—7/24/09

People with Asperger's are as varied as the rest of us...There's a saying in the Asperger's community, which is 'If you know one person with Asperger, you know one person with Asperger's.'
Zach Gilford—Dare, Friday Night Lights—6/21/09

He’s a kid who just didn’t have any intention of staying in Dillon for the rest of his life...it would wear on him a little bit. And I think it will be interesting to see how that happens...how long he can endure it or not...
Park Chan-wook—Thirst, Oldboy—7/23/09

There’s a Korean saying...if somebody [who] has achieved everything is saying something to somebody who is very downtrodden and tries to encourage him by saying, 'Well, if you do it, it’ll happen,' there’s no greater mockery than this.
John Hindman—The Answer Man—04/16/09

What I want to make fun of is the people who didn't get better; they just learned new words...I have zero tolerance for those people. 'Cause they're...like 'Oh, perhaps if you didn't get it yet, it means that you're not ready for it.'
Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Jackie Earle Haley—Watchmen—02/28/09

Haley: 'Every punch, every kick is a lash-out against his mom and the horrible upbringing, the neglect, the beatings that tweaked him...he needed to go out and come up with this black-and-white sense of justice just to survive.'
Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson & Malin Akerman—Watchmen—02/28/09

Wilson: 'the leaps that they had made, or the changes that they made, rather, from the graphic novel sort of left room for a minor bit of input, at least, from our side.'
Will Arnett—Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested Development—02/27/09

I did play those kind of parts, quite frankly...maybe a little bit too much...So I made a decision that I did want to kind of harness whatever a-hole capabilities that I have and use them for good.
Mitch Hurwitz—Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested Development—02/27/09

Everybody goes off and has careers and that kind of thing, so it's been a little challenging to schedule everybody together. And, um, but we've all—everyone who's agreed to make this movie has agreed to make this movie.
Henry Winkler & Josh Weinstein—Sit Down Shut Up, Arrested Development, The Simpsons—02/27/09

Winkler: I don’t know what happened to me, but when I first read this script, and I went in, I did it with a great calm. I just did him, and I spoke very quietly...he’s always on the verge of possibly crying, it seems like.
Kenan Thompson—Sit Down Shut Up, Saturday Night Live—02/27/09

I guess you just gotta lady it up, you know what I mean? You can’t be a man in lady’s clothes...You kind of got to get into actually being as much of a woman as possible so that people can believe the jokes, I guess.
Tom Kenny—Sit Down Shut Up, The Batman, SpongeBob SquarePants—02/27/09

I’m fortunate in that—since I do a lot of voices—a show like this always needs their Hank Azaria guy that's, like, fill in, you know, 'Man #7'—you know, 'Guy Behind Door.'
Richard M. Sherman—Mary Poppins, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story—4/24/09

[Walt Disney] pulled the car off to the side, and stopped the car, and he says, 'You're not going to give your royalties on this song away! It's going to put your kids through college!'
Common & Moon Bloodgood—Terminator Salvation—2/28/09

Common: 'One day they came and told me...'Yo, it’s the scene your brother got killed.' I’m like, 'I didn’t even know I had a brother!'...when I got to the set, they was like 'Oh, he’s not your brother anymore.'
McG—Terminator Salvation—2/28/09

With the second one, should we be able to make it, I can’t stand how excited I am about it. Let’s just say that it involves time travel, and it involves John Connor once again trying to galvanize the forces of those who think he’s crazy.
Anton Yelchin & Bryce Dallas Howard—Star Trek, Terminator Salvation—2/28/09

Yelchin: 'I just kind of fully embraced Chekov...there’s no point to losing the potential within Chekov just by making him a Russian kid...it’s a Cold War stereotype meets Davy Jones, you know?'
J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana--Star Trek--2/28/09

Zachary Quinto: 'There is an optimism that lives in the heart of this film and in the heart of the franchise that I think is a really great thing for us to be able to share with the world right now.'
John Cho—Star Trek, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay—02/23/08 & 03/15/08

The training was great...it was sort of like simulating the Starfleet Academy. And it just felt like we'd gone through something together.
R.W. Goodwin—Alien Trespass—2/15/09

It’s wonderful for me to see it with audiences now because they just laugh, or they’re really scared or they’re really touched, you know? It’s got all the elements of the '50s movies, but with the added layer that it’s funny.
Virginia Madsen—Wonder Woman—2/27/09

Do you realize, the lesson at the end of this movie is just 'Call your mother!'? I understand that!
Bruce Timm—Wonder Woman, Green Lantern—2/27/09

We get in these super-huge geeky debates sometimes about 'Oh, Steve Trevor would never say that' or...'That’s completely out of character,' and it’s like, who says, ya know?
Lauren Montgomery—Wonder Woman—2/27/09

Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman are their most precious babies. All the other characters, they’re like 'Oh yeah, fine. Whatever. Sign off, they’re cool.' But Wonder Woman was a bitch to nail down.
Zöe Bell—Angel of Death, Lost—2/28/09

Maybe it’s like: the alcoholic becoming sober. Because basically what she went through is technically horrific, but when she gets emotions and she gets conscious, technically she’s 'coming right.'
Matthew Goode—Brideshead Revisited, Watchmen—7/11/08

We hope we’re not going to piss off the fans...to flesh out a few things in Adrian Veidt’s past...he has a kind of private, now, and a public persona...And may or may not have American and German accents.
James Gray—Two Lovers—2/19/09

It's called often the 'rubber duckie' school of drama. Mommy took my rubber duckie from me...some pop psychology answer. And really the brain is much more mysterious than that.
Henry Selick—Coraline—1/27/09

Children, the younger they are, they're heathens. They're wild animals. It's much more about instinct. Love is a fierce thing to a child. Separation from mother, you know, fear of death...what is death?
Laurent Cantet—The Class—11/17/08

There is a domestication--that when you go out of a school, you have to behave like society wants you to behave...Politically speaking, I wouldn't accept it very easily, but I have to admit I've been socialized by school too.
Steven Soderbergh—Che—1/16/09

Americans get accused of being philistines when it comes to art...This is the only place in the world that audiences are seeing the Roadshow Version, because all the distributors everywhere else in the world said, 'Nobody in our country will go see that.'
Bruce Campbell—My Name is Bruce—12/17/08

I’m very thankful for the poor bastards who came before me who had to suck it up and work like a dog so that I could sit around and crack jokes.
Ari Folman—Waltz with Bashir—12/3/08

My best friends from childhood ran away. They got cold feet, and they didn’t participate...it’s not very cool to be a filmmaker and a left-wing liberal extremist and then...say, 'I remember we were going out to capture this village...'
Danny Boyle—Slumdog Millionaire—10/20/08

They are very keen on acting in India...it’s absolutely imprinted in their DNA...The kids do bits of dance for you, from certain movies.

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