Jackie Chan Just As Baffled By Brett Ratner’s Success As You Are

“Nothing particularly exciting stood out that made this movie special for me … I spent four months making this film and I still don’t fully understand the humor.� —Jackie Chan, who says he made Rush Hour 3 for the money and not the script [Fox News via AP]

“I don’t think a wife covers her breasts with bedsheets after sex. That’s an insufferable cliché in movies.� —Rodrigo Garcia, director of HBO’s sexually explicit show Tell Me You Love Me, who avoids cliché by exposing everything [NYT]

“I’m constantly trying to smoke less marijuana. I’d like to take less and to a degree it’s a problem. Is it a problem in my life? Is it getting in the way of my life? I really don’t think. I’m a happy man and I can afford my marijuana, so that’s not a problem.� —George Michael discusses where all his “Careless Whisper� royalties go [BBC Radio 4 via Reuters]

“My manager called and said, ‘Do you want to have David Duchovny snort cocaine off your ass in Californication?’ And I said, ‘As long as it’s not my naked ass — yes.’� —Judy Greer on her role as a hooker on the Showtime series [TV Guide]

“A funny thing happened on Dumb and Dumber. That was our first movie. We were reading actresses for the Lauren Holly role. Mariel Hemingway said, ‘That’s a piece of shit. This is garbage. You’ve got nothing here. Why would I want to play this woman? There’s nothing. The guys get all the jokes. I’m just a nothing. You’ve got to punch this up.’ She didn’t get the part.� —Peter Farrelly on the criticism that he doesn’t write parts for women [Coming Soon]
—Elizabeth Black