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Bruce Greenwood—Mao's Last Dancer, Star Trek, Batman: Under the Red Hood—08/13/10

I spent...three months doing ballet classes...Which is just an ass-kicking workout. And then I met a couple of dancers that had danced under him and interviewed them, and spent the evening sort of drinking wine and listening to their stories...
Idris Elba—Takers, Luther, The Wire—08/6/10

The meetings that you have with the costume designer are just as important as the meetings you have with the director and the writer. Because you are putting this character's aesthetics together.
Robert Duvall—Get Low—4/30/10

Nothing's bigger than life. Life is great, right? Some aspects of life are bigger than others. Some personalities in life are bigger than others.
Nicolas Cage & Jay Baruchel & Jon Turteltaub—The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Kick-Ass—4/3/10

[Cage:] I like to take bad sounds and just see if I can make them sound good...And I make it extra-hard on myself. But otherwise it's not interesting for me. You know, so I'm always tryin' to mess it up a little bit, or subvert it.
Aaron Johnson & Clark Duke—Kick-Ass, Nowhere Boy—4/3/10

These guys are just so involved in comic books, and all they've ever seen is Spider-Man's like this, Batman's like that, Superman can do these things...they're kind of brainwashed by this world...quite naively and not thinking about the consequences...
Clark Duke—Kick-Ass—4/3/10

Kids who want to be astronauts get to go to space camp when they're little. I get to be on a sitcom...people have this connotation with child actors that, like, you know, it's some kind of horrible burden. But for me it was great.
Chloë Grace Moretz & Christopher Mintz-Plasse—Kick-Ass, Let Me In—4/3/10

[Moretz:] You really get into character when you put on the jacket and the pants and the boots and the amazing wig...I kind of walked like a boy. It was really funny. Every time I was in that costume, I was always, like, really tough.
Jane Goldman & John Romita, Jr.—Kick-Ass—4/3/10

[Goldman:] Matthew and I were concentrating on the movie, and John and Mark were concentrating on the comic—apart from when we stole John away to do the animated sequence!
Hirokazu Kore-eda—Air Doll, After Life—5/1/10

When we think of our heart or soul, we kind of press toward our actual physical heart, but I think that kind of soul or emotion can’t exist on one’s own; it has to be between people...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet—Micmacs, Amélie—4/22/10

I had an appointment in an [ad] agency in San Francisco. And some people told me, 'Every day we heard something about Amélie. "We want the style of Amélie!’...If I could have one dollar for each time...
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?

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