Harrison Ford Threatens to Play a Geriatric Jack Ryan

“That’s a character that I think you could revisit acknowledging the passage of time and his increasing age. It wasn’t age dependent; that character and his experiences were chockablock full of recipes for good engaging movies, so that’s a character I wouldn’t mind revisiting.� —Good God, Harrison Ford, stop the madness! [Sun UK]

“A professor that turns into a car that turns into a robot.� —Rainn Wilson, describing his role in the new Transformers movie [Movies Blog/MTV]

“I was reading last week in USA Today about the Bond film — The Quantum of Solace — and they were shooting in Chile in some desert at 120 degrees, they’re running on a metal building, the crew was dying, they can’t function, they don’t know how they’re going it, the Mayor of the city is mad at them because it’s supposed to be Colombia. Everybody’s going crazy. I mean they could be shooting in Pinewood. They could be in a big green room.� —Speed Racer producer Joel Silver on why locations, sets, and real actors are superfluous [Moviehole]

“I was raised by a matriarch, I have a wife and three daughters, so I know what women are looking for when they shop for clothes. Clothes have to make a woman feel good, relaxed and sexy. We are going to be constantly looking at fine-tuning the fit and we’ll get it right.� —LL Cool J, on designing a range of children’s clothes for Sears [WENN via Starpulse]

“I’ve got a film script based on ‘L.A. Woman,’ and another one in which three UCLA film school guys go to the desert to take peyote with the Native Americans at the Native American Church.� —Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek prepares to launch his screenwriting career with scripts that will really appeal to kids today [Billboard]