Johnny Depp Bemused by Bizarre Fan Homage

“It’s one of the most beautiful, haunting, and strange things I’ve ever seen in my life.� —Johnny Depp, after watching children in fake mustaches and pirate costumes play air piano in his honor [Nerve]

“It’s a pleasure to do a movie that my kids can actually see. My kids think the name of my TV show is The Shield, Get Out! because we don’t let them watch it.� —Michael Chiklis, who plays the Thing in the PG-rated Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer [LA Times]

“Star Wars really made it confusing. I expected the Ewoks to be here. I was really disappointed.� —Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords, on how films affected his expectations of New York City [EW]

“I don’t care about my personal acting career any more. I’m done with it. After ten years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself … Am I just going to keep making movie after movie and be concerned with all of that ‘Are you up, are you down, are you hot, are you not?’, and I don’t really care.� —Kevin Spacey quashes all hope of a Big Kahuna sequel [London Times]

“When we were doing Star Wars [parodies], Seth MacFarlane actually called me because we were both writing at around the same time. He said, ‘Hey, are you guys doing something about the two-meter thermal-exhaust port as far as the aesthetic of the design of the port?’ And I’m like, ‘We did have a joke where we had a designer and an architect come in and give them a rundown of the latest fashions and how everyone was doing this thermal-exhaust port and instant self-destruct system and it’s really, really cool, all the kids are doing it … but we cut it.’ He’s like, ‘Okay, good.’� —Robot Chicken creator Seth Green on how he avoids comic overlap with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane [MTV]
—Hannah Tucker