“The challenge really was in showing Diana on holiday without her kind of trademark hairstyle. It’s still saying Diana, so we would agonize over this wig when it had had salt water in it and she’d been diving. We just didn’t have the usual public silhouette that we could rely on.”
“Capote gigantic viper, just a stuffed snake that sat on the coffee table right in the middle of the room. I don’t know what it meant to him, but it’s the kind of detail that you can’t not put in there.”
“When you’re on these bikes, they’re vibrating underneath you, and you’re on these long road trips that these guys, all that noise and all that wind and all that vibration, it’s got to almost all bleed together. You’re almost floating.”
Twisted Metal is a success story for video game adaptations, and it was all shot by cinematographer James McMillan and his “pit crew.”
Colleen Atwood is the great costume designer behind Chicago, several Tim Burton classics, and now, Masters of the Air.
“There’s a certain tweeness to how people see stop-motion sometimes that works with the world of NPR. The fact that our characters are these puppets with fragile bodies and big heads controlled by forces outside of their consciousness just fit.”
“Rock was not from New York, Rock was not Actors Studio. He was studio, studio. I think for movies, snobs would put him in a lower-class of actor in a way.”
“You would not think that that scene would be difficult because it’s all one shot. For an editor, you would think, oh, she could just put her feet up for half a day. It didn’t work like that. Here’s what happened…”
“With Guy, a comfortable gentleman is somebody who can walk around in a suit and feel very assertive and at ease.”
“I couldn’t rent a sofa or a chair there. I had to buy it since we’re going to cover it in blood.”