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• Rashida Jones & Will McCormack—Celeste and Jesse Forever—7/25/12 *

  [Jones:] You read a lot of screenplays, and you read some that are pretty damn good and then you read some that are not so good. And you wonder if anybody’s even heard it out loud. And I think you think, you know, 'I can do this'... 

• Joel Edgerton & Peter Hedges—The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Great Gatsby—8/2/2012 *

  [Edgerton:] Being an onscreen parent is definitely a responsibility because kids, where I come from—it really can spin their life out of control... 

• Jay Chandrasekhar & Kevin Heffernan—The Babymakers, Super Troopers—7/25/12 *

  [Chandrasekhar:] The props people came up with the just perfect melons, and photographed them in a way that, you know, you really want to go at 'em a little bit. 

• William Friedkin—Killer Joe, The French Connection—7/10 & 7/11/2012 *

  I realized early on that all of us were capable of good and evil. That it’s within all of us. And that’s how I approach the stories I do. 

• Alison Klayman—Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry—4/24/2012 *

  The movie is, in a lot of ways, a product of just a very extensive investigation, of just kind of hanging around seeing what was going to happen. 

• Henry Jaglom & Tanna Frederick—Just 45 Minutes from Broadway, A Safe Place—7/25/2012 *

  [Jaglom:] The best advice anybody gave a young filmmaker was delivered by Orson Welles. 

• Zoe Kazan—Ruby Sparks—7/22/12 & 7/23/12 *

  My first experiences of love relationships were experiences where I felt like I was walking into just a land mine of preconceived notions. 

• Mike Okuda, Denise Okuda, David S. Grant, Ryan Adams, Craig Weiss, & Eric Bruno—Star Trek: The Next Generation—7/12/12 *

  [Mike Okuda:] I grew up watching the Apollo moon landings...and the amazing things that the astronauts and the nation did, going boldly and doing it for the benefit of all humanity...here is this television show that embodied that. That was just so cool. 

• Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas—The Dark Knight Rises, Batman Begins—7/8/12 & 5/3/05 *

  [Nolan:] These are larger-than-life characters, and I very much enjoyed tapping into the sort of operatic sensibility of that...naturally from that you’re aiming for a sort of mythic status. 

• Cillian Murphy & Rodrigo Cortés—Red Lights, The Dark Knight Rises—6/19/2012 *

  [Murphy:] I was fascinated by...how intelligent people would set aside logic and reason and rational thought because they just needed to believe. 

• Christian Bale—Batman Begins—5/3/05 & 2/19/05 *

  Chris Nolan coming on board...just the fact that they'd asked him to do it meant that they didn't want the same thing that we'd seen before, which is what I was interested in, creating something completely new.  

• Elliott Gould—Dorfman, MASH, Little Murders, The Long Goodbye—7/20/12 *

  Taking into consideration the ego and the vanity of this species of ours, I believe that a zucchini is also one-of-a-kind, and that there’s nothing more intelligent than vegetation because it simply is, and that’s all life is about: being. 

• Todd Solondz—Dark Horse, Life During Wartime—7/20/12 *

  The high spirits that begin the movie are supposed to be, in some sense, a representation of youthful frivolity and joy. And this is a character who is clinging to his youth and suffers from its irretrievability—the hopes and dreams of his youth. 

• Andrew Garfield—The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man—9/20/10 *

  What’s great about acting is that, underneath the ego and the id, everything about a human being is the same as everyone else. We’re all made up of the same things. 

• Emma Stone—The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man—7/11/11 *

  There is a certain level of privacy that leaves immediately when you set foot in this small town, y'know? Everybody heard what you had for dinner last night and who you had over. 

• Chris Pine & Alex Kurtzman—People Like Us, Star Trek—6/6/2012 *

  [Pine:] Kirk is still on that journey...our new film explores that even more: of what it means to be a captain when your kind of innate brashness and confidence comes head to head with the stark responsibility of leading men and women in battle. 

• Adam Shankman—Rock of Ages, Hairspray—5/30/12 *

  I do know what it is to be alone in a crowded room. Where you're surrounded by people, but you feel very, very lonely. Because everybody's biting at you 'cause it's just all about work. 

• Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache—The Intouchables—4/24/12 *

  [Toledano:] I think it's a cultural problem because, in America, each time you are touching [on] the relation between race and black and white, it's touchy. In France, we have not the same story [as] you. We have not slavery; we have colonization... 

• Glenn Close—Albert Nobbs, Damages—10/7/11 *

  The surprise every morning of when that face was finally on: it was somebody that wasn't me. You know, I never thought of how masculine or feminine she was. 

• Dave Goelz—The Muppet Movie—08/17/07 *

  Jim used to always con you into doing things by saying, 'Oh no, it'll be great. It'll be really nice.' 

• Vera Farmiga—Higher Ground—8/19/11 *

  You know, 'I'm gonna direct this film about a woman and her struggle to conceptualize God'...It's like, 'Are you insane?  Are you possessed?' 

• John Madden—The Debt, Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel—8/17/11 *

  I have no interest in manipulating a performance. I want to unleash a performance. And I want to witness a performance. And obviously use my camera as tellingly as I can to capture that. 

• Tate Taylor & Octavia Spencer—The Help—7/11/11 *

  [Spencer:] Long before...people who were housekeepers and perhaps felt invisible, I think it is always a gracious thing to acknowledge someone’s influence and going out of their way to help you. So, absolutely. I will always say, 'Thank you.' 

• John Michael McDonagh—The Guard—07/21/11 *

  I’m a big fan of those...late '60s, early '70s movies that all had this...anti-authoritarian edge to them as well. So there are a lot of dumb jokes in the movie, but there are other jokes that are...a bit more pointed and confrontational. 

• 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.