“I’m so used to having them on set when Anna and I are having a love scene that when we get home and we’re in bed by ourselves, I kind of miss them.†—Stephen Moyer wants to invite the True Blood crew back to his and Anna Paquin’s bedroom [Pop Candy/USAT]
“Never work with a raccoon or Audra McDonald, they will always steal the show.†—Raúl Esparza has some tips for aspiring stage performers [WNYC]
“I got a phone call from my father, who said, ‘That’s way too fucking sick. You can’t have dark win over light … You’re the sickest bitch I know.’†—Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch, on her father’s reaction to her new movie, Surveillance [Hollywood & Fine]
“That’s what I was thinking. How did people react when Abraham, out of the blue, said ‘I think I’m going to cut off my foreskin, and every other in the guy in the village should do so as well.’†—Harold Ramis on wondering, for Year One, where the tradition of circumcision came from [Cinema Blend]
“I did have an experience where I was struggling to deal with being alone and being forsaken and being betrayed by putting your trust in one person, and making the mistake of that being the wrong person. And that’s a mistake that everyone can relate to. I made the mistake of trying to, desperately, grasp on and save that and own it. And every time I called her [on Christmas Day] — I called 158 times — I took a razor blade and I cut myself on my face or on my hands … I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer.†—Marilyn Manson on breaking up with Evan Rachel Wood [Spin]
“He’s a very odd guy, Brian. I went to his house, where he had antique gynecological instruments that he collects, and some farting cockroaches, which fart to scare away other animals. He told me that he had tried to buy a Mummy, but was outbid. That was when I said, ‘You’re hired.’†—Darren Aronofsky on his prerequisites for the sound designer for Pi, Brian Emrich [Guardian UK]