“It was difficult, because usually you have to sleep with only one director, but in this case I had to sleep with two.†—Zach Galifianakis on working with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for It’s Kind of a Funny Story. [LAT]
“Shooting the film day to day felt like such a fever dream that I only recall bits and pieces of it, so, for the most part, when I watch it now it feels like I’m watching somebody else up there. And the shooting process was so intimate that the strangest thing was that it feels somewhat voyeuristic, almost like a lot of people stole a home movie from my house and they’re watching it on a huge screen in the theater.†—Ryan Reynolds on shooting Buried. [Parade]
“I like doing ‘em. I don’t give a fuck about watching my own stuff.†—Mickey Rourke, on not having watched Iron Man 2 yet. [Movies Blog/MTV]
“I find myself less and less interested in movies that just tie it up and deliver it to you and let you cruise out going, ‘Oh, they wanted you to take away this message.’ I don’t think that actually engages people’s brains that much … I like leaving the questions open.†—Edward Norton, star of Stone. [LA Times]
“If they can make it 20, we’ll do the ‘deluxe breakup’! —Patrick Wilson of Weezer, in response to the $10 million fund-raising campaign to pay them to break up. [Patrick Wilson/Twitter]
“I was in Milan, and you would see the same girls at castings. There was one girl — she was like, ‘I can’t get any work. I’m so sick of this, I’m ready to quit. I love your hair color. What do you color your hair with?’ and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s red. Here’s my formula.’ It was Karen Elson. A couple of weeks later, she had bright-red hair … I saw her on the cover of Italian Vogue, and the rest is history!†—Christina Hendricks of Mad Men on her modeling days [Harper’s Bazaar]