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Matthew McConaughey Has High, High Hopes for His Child
“Make no doubt about it. My kid will dance. He will be on the beach and he will be taking hikes with a wild bandana on.†—Matthew McConaughey, assuring us we can look forward to a lifetime of naked bongo drumming from his baby-to-be [People]
“A junkie can’t do what the fuck I do. I try to tell them [the police]. I am the ultimate high, understand? I am my drug, you understand me?†—Lil Wayne, making the dubious case that you can’t be on drugs if you are one [Pr-Inside]
“I read the script for the first time and there was this scene with a turkey, which I won’t elaborate on, because it’s a fantastic scene, but I thought, ‘How the hell are they going to do that scene?’ and then we got there, and they built this like … I don’t even know. It must have cost like 8 million dollars, this awesome animatronic turkey. That’s where all the budget went, just the turkey.†—Kevin Hefferman on working with the wildlife in Strange Wilderness [ComingSoon]
“I largely ascribe to something I call the Collective Anger Quota. It works like this: every offending cultural object — movie, TV show, ice-cream flavor, what have you — demands that a certain amount of anger be generated in response to it. If tons of people despise something — like, say, the comedy of Carlos Mencia — the Anger Quota has already been filled, and I don’t have to feel strongly about it one way or another … In the case of Juno, so many people I know dislike it that I’m off the hook. †—Simpsons writer and producer Tim
Long [VF]
“He was thinking that I was Antonio Banderas. I didn’t want to say the truth, because I didn’t want to disappoint him.†—Javier Bardem on his No Country for Old Men co-star Woody Harrelson [People]