I never wanted to make a smear piece or a derogatory look at the group...At the end of the day, I’m always going to be a fan of A Tribe Called Quest. 
Groucho Reviews
Latest Interviews
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Michael Rapaport—Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Small Time Crooks—7/14/11
I never wanted to make a smear piece or a derogatory look at the group...At the end of the day, I’m always going to be a fan of A Tribe Called Quest. -
Michael Biehn & Jennifer Blanc—The Victim, The Terminator, Tombstone—6/3/11
[Michael Biehn:] I watched T4 about a year ago or whenever it came out...it didn’t appeal to me at all. You know, at all. But, if they came to me and said, 'Here’s a check...' -
Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively—Green Lantern—4/2/11
[Reynolds:] Yeah, there's a lot of daddy issues in the movie. I have some daddy issues, so we'll keep some tissue nearby. Yeah, he needs mentors. -
Geoff Johns—Green Lantern, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights—4/2/11
When Mark Strong first walked out in Sinestro makeup. And he said, 'How’s it look?' And I was like, 'That—you’re Sinestro.' That was the best thing. -
Bruce Timm & Andrea Romano and Wade Williams—Green Lantern: Emerald Knights—4/2/11
[Timm:] I’m not a huge fan of the CG properties that try to trick you into thinking you’re looking at a live-action film. I think the most successful CG films so far are the ones that actually have a stylized look. -
Alan Burnett—Green Lantern: Emerald Knights—4/2/11
I’m looking, and there’s Alfred Hitchcock...I got a chance to talk with his chauffeur, of all people. Who said that the last film, Family Plot, was largely directed from the limousine. -
Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills—Beginners—4/22/11
[McGregor:] Research I find very boring...it’s all just whatever’s required for that character. And if it involves sitting in a library looking through research books, that—you won’t find me there, I don’t think. -
Jodie Foster—The Beaver—4/20/11
You know, life is tragic and comic. And it is excruciatingly painful and totally joyful. And you cannot embrace one without embracing the other. -
Brandon Routh & Sam Huntington—Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Being Human—4/2/11
[Routh:] There were kind of like a lot of Han Solo moments in there where he's up against something...but he's still calm and cool and collected and has some witty, sarcastic remark and saves the day... [Huntington:] Spoiler alert. -
Neil Gaiman, Mark Sheppard, & Toby Haynes—Doctor Who—4/3/11
[Gaiman:] Originally the episode actually started as if you were in the middle of another episode. And the Doctor and Amy are off having an adventure, and they've been captured...[an] essentially Simpsons-style beginning... -
Rainn Wilson & James Gunn—Super—4/2/11
[Wilson:] All those details, I think they help all actors. Y'know, Dwight's glasses and wristwatch: you put anyone in that short-sleeved shirt and those glasses and that wristwatch, and they're gonna kinda act like Dwight. -
Saoirse Ronan & Joe Wright—Hanna—4/2/11
[Ronan:] I got to see everything in a new light, and so fresh and pure. So that was fun. And it’s something I've held onto, actually... -
Aaron Sorkin—The Social Network, A Few Good Men—9/20/10
You can’t not like the characters that you’re writing...Even with, quote unquote, a 'bad guy.' You have to write them as if they’re making their case to God why they belong in heaven. -
Jesse Eisenberg—The Social Network, Roger Dodger—9/20/10
You really want the people you’re working with to be as great as they can be...You know, it often feels like a competition somehow. But it’s really not. That’s coming from a bad place, and it’s an illusion. -
Armie Hammer—The Social Network—9/20/10
My eighteenth birthday, I was like 'Okay! I'm an adult now. I want to act!' And [my parents] were like 'Oh nooo.' They were hoping I'd forget, and I didn't. And I pursued it ever since. -
James Franco—Howl—6/27/10
I would prepare every day for ten months for a role. Now the problem with that is there’s only so much that a film role can express...I would do all this research, and then it felt to me like eighty percent of it was always just ending up nowhere. -
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, Still Walking, 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.'