The Writers’ Strike Won’t Stop Michael Bay From Delivering a Bad Script in a Timely Fashion

“I’ve been writing Transformers 2 … I want to make my date. I’m not going to let the strike take me down.� —Michael Bay [Rotten Tomatoes]

“Quentin’s original idea was that Jules would have a big Afro. His mistake was, he sent this young white girl to South Central Los Angeles to pick up an Afro wig, and this is what she came back with.� —Samuel L. Jackson on the Jheri-curl wig he wore in Pulp Fiction [MTV]

“I was very arrogant at the time, and I didn’t realize then what I realize now: that a close-up of Steve McQueen’s face is more powerful than the biggest landscape you could put on screen. So I told Steve to go fuck himself, and then I sent the script to Roy.� —William Friedkin on casting Roy Scheider in Sorceror [EW]

“I’m really, really, really, really happy to be back. Wait. I want to add another ‘really’ to that.� —Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron, who is fairly excited that the strike is over [NYT]

“It’s an honor. And the Weinsteins wanted me to be there to help promote it, and blah, blah, all of that stuff. It’s almost an obligation, a contractual obligation.� —George A. Romero, who doesn’t seem too sure about why Diary of the Dead was screened at Sundance [MTV]