“I’d want to play Lennon, but I probably would be cast as McCartney. I met Paul McCartney on a flight not long ago. I was sitting there going, ‘I can’t go over there.’ And then he came over to me. He said, ‘You’re famous, aren’t you? I’ve seen you on the TV.’ And I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ve seen you on the TV a few times as well.’†—Michael Sheen [Female First]
“It was a happy set. I was only there for, what, three days or something. But that’s when you arrive on the set in Melbourne, and you see 150 people and this whole sort of mini-factory creating animatronic owls, you know? And people building mountains and everything. I saw them building them, and that’s when you actually feel ridiculous for having written some of this stuff. Because you just think, ‘Yeah, there’s a couple talking owls, and blah blah blah.’ And then these highly specialized craftsmen have to spend months of their lives to do it.†—Dave Eggers on Where The Wild Things Are [AV Club]
“It is Fever Pitch, seriously. And I didn’t realise that until I’d written a few drafts. But then I could see that was one of the things that hooked me, the story of a suburban kid that looks at a world apparently more exotic and wants a piece of it. It’s the story of the Rolling Stones, the Band, Jerry Wexler. It is a very important story in America and in England.†—Nick Hornby on his screenplay for An Education being just another one of his novels [Telegraph UK]
“I’ve talked to Simon. He misses me, and I know it. I talk to him a lot — he says he loves me and that is really disturbing to me.†—Paula Abdul is getting creeped out [Fox via Showbiz Spy]
“I had my girlfriends paint my body with fluorescent hearts and flowers. I wore a pair of shorts and a midriff top, and I just went mad. … I’m sure everyone thought I was insane. That was the beginning of my provocative performances, I guess.†—Madonna on her seventh grade performance of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley†[Rolling Stone]
“I write about my life experiences. My first boyfriend knows that I have written a song about him. I don’t think his girlfriend is too much of a fan. But there you go! I like the song.†—Taylor Swift [Showbiz Spy]