So how did "The Wackness" come about?

Jonathan Levine:

"Well, I started writing it at film school. We had a developing class where once you're out of film school they wanted you to have a feature script and this was one of the ones I was working on although I never finished it in film school, but I started working on it. It really just started with that idea of these two characters, the Kingsley character and the Josh Peck character connecting over these therapy sessions That was I think about 2003, 2004 and then over the next few years I was working on other stuff and I kept coming back to it and kept developing it in the background...Read the whole interview

On a few of the dancers having a crush on Cat:

"Clearly, their sanity level needs to be checked. I think the men in white capes are probably about to come and take them away.  Listen, I mean they're great dancers, but nobody said they've got any taste.  You know what?" They're a lovely, lovely bunch of ladies and gentlemen....Read the whole interview

Sitting on the phone with the Academy Award® nominated writer of one the year’s most moving, warm and funny comedies with a really talented cast. Nancy Oliver, for those who don’t know, also wrote several episodes of the very successful “Six Feet Under” created by Alan Ball.

After speaking to director Craig Gillespie earlier and having a few laughs, curiosity called as to what the writer of such a craved after release would be like. So many different personalities....Read the whole interview

I ask about his character's strength in the film. Is there any one particular power shot?

"Yeah, he has a mean right cross! That and the majority of his strength comes from his heart and a lot of fight within himself. I consider that the greatest strength that he has because that's what gets him through training and ultimately he has such a big heart that his mind changes along with it.

He becomes more self-controlled and more disciplined; he learns to fight for the right reasons...Read the whole interview.

Are you a sci-fi fan?

Summer Glau                       

Firefly was the first sci-fi show that I ever auditioned for, so I kind of got lucky, and I feel like once I became a member of the Josh Whedon family, those actors have found to like to see … actors on other shows.  It is sort of a small world.  Those actors that are in sci-fi shows tend to make an easy transition into other sci-fi shows...Read the whole interview.

Conference with star Lena Headey and Executive Producer James Middleton for "The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

On whether Lena gets bumps and bruises from all the stunts:

L. Headey

Just a lot of hand injury, because, as I said earlier, there seems to be a curse on the show that every breakable surface never breaks.  So you’re being told by experts, just really hit it, it’ll break on the first punch, and actually, it’s just agony...Read the whole interview.

1-1 with Robert Englund - I ask why he decided to take the wheel after such a long time:

"Well, you know I'm sort of a...I hesitate to use the word artist, I'm a professional for hire. I did a reality show in 2004 and then because that sort of took a little bit...it took me a year to do the show and it never sold.

So I was playing catch up with all the sort of low budget horror spoofs that had come my way as an actor, many of which are entering the market now. I have one at Sundance and 'Behind the Mask' which was very well received last year and so in the middle of all of this my old friend Wayne Rice who had been very successful in the world of teen comedies and family films most notably 'Dude, Where's My Car?' which of course was huge...Read the whole interview.

1-1 with Charlie Murphy, star of the Yari Film Group family film "The Perfect Holiday"...concluded. In addition process. Bookmark this link.

QUESTION: There seems to still be a lot of life in this storyline, do you think there will be more National Treasures?

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER: You know -- there are always a lot of stories to tell about a treasure hunter.  There’s always another adventure.  It just depends on a lot of things -- can you put the same team together?  Can you get the same writers back?  Can you get the same director?  You don’t know.  It all comes down to the idea....- Read the whole interview

QUESTION: Do you ever hit any dead ends where you can’t figure out how to get out of them?

JON TURTELTAUB: It’s all dead ends.  Truly it is.  It’s all dead ends, and the most underrated and most complicated part of the entire film business is writing.  And great ideas are dead ends almost all the time, and it’s finding those few that take you somewhere else.  And not just a dead end, but how does that ending have anything to do with your beginning, and making it seem like you knew what you were doing when you started.  All of that is really tough...- Read the whole interview

QUESTION: What were the particular criteria for you to sign onto this project, and what do you think sets this particular sequel apart from the original?

NICOLAS CAGE: Okay. Well, you may be aware that I’ve not done a sequel before, and the reason being that generally speaking, I never like to repeat myself.  And in this case, I do believe that if you’re going to do a sequel, it has to promise to be better than the original, or at least as good. Largely, the fear with sequels is that people get lazy, and that they realize they have a winner, and then they just throw money at it and they don’t care...- Read the whole interview

Conference with star Johnny Depp and Director Tim Burton for "Sweeney Todd":

To Johnny Depp on why he wanted to do this project

Johnny Depp:

Er it’s I mean I was familiar to some degree with the, with the you, you know the er the earlier versions of this, this stuff that you know I’d seen the, the video of um Angela Lansbury [INAUDIBLE] quite extensively....- Read the whole interview

Conference with director and star of "The Great Debaters" Denzel Washington:

Why did you choose The Great Debaters as your second film as director?

Denzel Washington:

You know when I read the script, I just like the script. I thought it was an interesting story. Sort of the little train that could, and it just affected me on an emotional level and I really looked at it as sort of a sports movie...- Read the whole interview

Conference with director and co-writer of "I'm Not There" Todd Haynes:

On Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett:

Todd Haynes:

Yeah, I mean all the actors in the film I shared my own source material that – of research material that I used to write the stories and conceive of the stories and characters. And there’s so much stuff....- Read the whole interview

1-1 with star Kal Penn on Mira Nair's "The Namesake"

When and how did you hear about this project?

Kal Penn:

I had read the book a few years before the film was made, and that was actually the impetus behind pursuing the film project so aggressively. Jhumpa Lahiri has created such awesome and intimate details about Gogol’s life and who he is, it was a treat to have that manuscript to refer to every day as we shot the film...- Read the whole interview

Conference with director Frank Darabont, stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Chris Owen:

To Frank Darabont on taking so long to make another movie:

Frank Darabont:

Well the reason it took a while, you know, well for 20 years of a career I've been primarily a writer for hire. I mean that’s…I've been a screenwriter first and a director on occasion. It’s only quite recently that I decided to reverse that equation and get behind the camera as often as I could, because not getting any younger and I feel like I got some more movies to make...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Sonja Bennett:

Can you talk a little about working with Andrew Currie. What does he bring to the set as a director in general?

Sonja Bennett:
 
When I was working with Andrew I thought, ‘this is an actor’s director ‘ but then when I saw FIDO on the big screen I thought,  look at this film, this is a visual director.   He brings a very relaxed energy to set.  I  can’t imagine how stressful making a big movie like FIDO would be but you’d never know it by talking to Andrew.  He makes it look easy ...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Director Andrew Currie:

On the idea of "Fido"

Andrew Currie:

“Yeah, Dennis, Robert and I were film students together SFU University in Vancouver and basically it was one of those things the three of us wanted to write together. We wanted to write a feature together and we all sort of brought our five best ideas to the table and Dennis had written a story in a shorter film just about a boy and his pet zombie and the kid kept his zombie from eating flesh by giving him raw meat. We really liked that idea so that’s the one we settled on...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Zach mills:

Do you have or did you had a favorite toy?

Zach Mills:

“Cube World. It’s these two cubes and in the center is a screen, there are these three buttons and you push one and this stick figure pops up on the screen and they have all these magnetic things on the side and you can connect them then you can create your own cube world and they can interact, it’s really cool...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with director William Friedkin:

So what do you want viewers to take with them from “Bug?”

William Friedkin:

“Well, that they’re seeing something powerful, original and unique. It’s kind of a very black comedy but it has echoes and reverberations into you know, life all around us; it’s not a fantasy; it’s something that, as far as I’m concerned has a very realistic face and deals with the way the world situation is today where no one seems to be in control and everything’s just whirling around in chaos...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with David Koechner:

Tell us about the Coach Fields character.

David Koechner:

“The character of Coach Fields is the losingest coach or most least-successful coach in the history of all sport, but he doesn’t seem to know. How he gets hired time after time is beyond me, but he certainly does. He’s always in prominent positions to make…always the right…he’s always at the right moment to make the worst call for the job!”....- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Craig Gillespie:

When was this project brought to you and what did you think of it the first time you actually read it?

Craig Gillespie:

*laughs softly*

“John Cameron, the producer on this…I’d known him socially for years. He worked with the Coen brothers for twelve years and he’s done ‘Bad Santa’ and ‘Friday Night Lights’ and now ‘The Kingdom.’ He, literally like five years ago, and I’d known him for like five years, called me up out of the blue and he’d never approached me professionally before, and said ‘I have this script about this guy who falls in love with a sex doll!”...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Maggie Grace:

How much different is the movie from the book?

Maggie Grace:

“I thought that Robin did such a wonderful take on it and it kept so much of what was charming about it but as she says herself, the book is more like a series of six stand alone, episodic kind of short stories. So she definitely brought them some more schematic elements that tied them all together, to make it more of a film...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Michael Shannon:

On Working with Ashley Judd:

Michael Shannon:

“She was a complete professional from the get-go. I was so impressed with her approach to the work, with her humility and with her dedication. She was just completely focuses and, you know, it’s a very hard part, that part. It’s a very sad character and you have to think about a lot of very unpleasant things...- Read the whole interview

1-1 with Gregory Smith:

You play older Max brother on whom the darkness hones in on and, he turns to the dark side. Tell us about Max.

Gregory Smith:

“Max was…the word I kept getting on set was: ‘Greg, Greg just make him Bohemian man! Make him Bohemian!’”...- Read the whole interview

*I laugh* ... *he laughs*

It’s been so long since the film was made, what special memories does Cujo hold for you?

Dee Wallace Stone:

Cujo is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my career.  Working with a 4-year-old child and five dogs was exhilarating, exhausting, and empowering.  I have special memories of working with my husband Christopher Stone and watching the hot air balloons drift over our valley every morning at 5:30 or 6:00....- Read the whole interview

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I ask about working with Scott Wiper on this:

Stone Cold Steve Austin:

When asked about preparation for the film:

Jesse Eisenberg:

"Yeah, I had a friend who lives in Sarajevo, in the capital of Bosnia so I asked him if I could stay with him for three weeks before the movie started and I thought he’d take me around the county but he ended up like taking me to bars to meet like women for him” * he laughs* “but we did travel a little bit around Bosnia. ....- Read the whole interview

About the character of Bruce:

Craig Robinson:

“Bruce is a cameraman to Jason Behr, to Ethan and he’s a good friend who supports him even though he doesn’t necessarily believe his claim. Bruce is just trying to get through the day and make it home to his girl....- Read the whole interview

Can you talk about the character of Chris Pratt? Do you know anyone who had suffered brain damage?

Scott Frank:

“Yeah I did. A brother of someone I knew had a pretty horrible head injury and woke up essentially a new person. And , I’ve always thought that was pretty incredible just to sort of get to know yourself again, I thought that was an astonishing thing, that that could actually happen to a person....- Read the whole interview

This is your first bad guy role. Can you talk about your character Billy Darly who’s this ruthless gang member?

Garrett Hedlund:

“Yeah, that’s it in a nutshell. He’s a ruthless gang leader, sort of leader of a group of thugs, you know. His motivation is to get money however, wherever. In his situation he runs a meth lab and that’s what they call the office and that’s basically where he resides throughout the day. Basically where he’ll come into this story is that he’s getting his brother to commit an act of initiation whereas at that time it happens to be the same place where Kevin Bacon and his son are and that’s where I think the story starts to really unfold.” ...- Read the whole interview

On how Tim Kring thought of the concept of Masi Oka's character of being the world non-reluctant superhero.

Tim Kring:

"Well it really -- you sort of landed exactly on it. When I read the first draft of the script -- and the character actually didn’t exist. And it was sort of a preponderance of characters who felt that these powers were an affliction. And the accumulative effect of it -- at the end of reading this first draft -- was that it was kind of a downer. Nobody seemed to have any fun with it....- Read the whole interview

Andre Gower's asked about the film’s cult status and resurfacing.

“I think I had a little bit more exposure to it than Ryan did because he’s just not that associated with it, but for some reason it’s never really gone away. Most of my fans never really disappear, they just had nowhere really to go and last year when we did that first screening in Texas it really like oh wow! There is an outlet, they’re doing stuff, let’s jump on it and now it’s going to blow up. That’s what happened almost a year and a half ago. It’s really the fans enthusiasm and energy that actually…that’s why we had a DVD...- Read the whole interview

Their asked about how their career all started at Pixar.

Katherine Sarafian:

"We all have unusual beginnings but my past started with shorts programming because I was a graphic student at UCLA Film School. I knew I wanted to work in computer filmmaking, I just didn't know what that meant at the time. And we had a guest speaker from Pixar. I remember everything from my career except I don't remember who that speaker was...- Read the whole interview

I ask about supporting characters? Who do we see?

Greg Johnson:

“Well, of course there’s Wong but we found kind of an exciting way…we found a very cool way of bringing him into this and I still think it strikes to who the original character was as far as being somebody who helps to facilitate things for others but he’s very much his own character."...- Read the whole interview

About working with Marc Schoelermann on this.

Is there any aspect of these characters that you drew from your personal lives?

Mark Neveldine:

I ask Schoelermann about this being his first full length film and his experience.

“In a way yeah, the challenge is to maintain being able to tell the story, that’s the biggest difference. You just have to focus to tell the story, to make sure that the character arc…- Read the whole interview

I ask about working with Marc Schoelermann with this being his first feature-length film in comparison to his prior shorts history.

Johnny Whitworth:

“He was great man. He definitely had a clear vision. Being for me, it was in a world that I hadn’t, as far as like so much death around me…trying to be a natural around that. I had to put a lot of trust in him as I was busy trying to adjust to other things and to like try portray something real...- Read the whole interview

So what was the most intense scene?

Michael Weston:

“There were a bunch of them in different ways. There’s sort of an array of stuff that goes on. Some of the hardest intensity is just really subtle. Like you’re not doing really very much but there’s a lot going on between you and the actors...- Read the whole interview

You seduce Milo's character?

She laughs heartedly at my question - “Troubled, I would say!” *laughs again*. “Troubled young woman!

Yeah she does! She definitely seduces Ted. She tries very hard and eventually succeeds to a certain degree.”...- Read the whole interview

So you saw the movie?

“It’s really a beautiful film. You’re fascinated by the visuals you’re seeing. So many times, I think films in the genre of horror, thriller, they go for whatever the quick fix.”

He moves on to say “this film was beautiful and meaningful but also displayed that kind of like torture, darker side.”...- Read the whole interview

So what did you know about your character?

"I knew the story of Dieter Dengler because I had seen the documentary numerous times it was one that I would take with me on gigs as like a comfort film. I was really taken by the documentary where Dieter talked about his experience and his relationship with Duane and it was tighter, closer than he was with his mother or brother at the time. And then I looked further into finding things out about Duane which was quite limited, you know, unfortunately."... Read the whole interview.

When did you get the call for this and did you know much about Richard Speck?

"Well I knew about Richard Speck to a greater or lesser degree just as kind of a name of one of the many psychopaths that have been born out of our culture. When I got the script I actually thought that this was going to be far more of a really bloody, gratuitous slasher film and as I started reading it I got more and more excited to find that it's more of a character study than anything else. So I got extremely excited from an acting stand point and jumped on board really quickly...- Read the whole interview.

What was the thinking behind when to use and not to use subtitles?

We tried to only use subtitles when it was essential to the story for you to understand what they were saying. If the audience could figure out what was happening without the subtitles, that was my preference...- Read the whole interview.

Tell us about your ultimate goal that you had in mind for this.

Mike White:

“I liked the idea of making a movie when the character doesn’t end up in a relationship and she’s found a different passion and I liked the idea that her obsession is about animals. I wanted to show that everyone is obsessed with their own thing, even if it’s more of a conventional thing, whether it’s work, or relationships, or children. We can be absurdly obsessed with those enthusiasms and that this is just another version of that and that there was hopefully room at the table for her to be the animal lover that she is.” ...- Read the whole interview.

I ask him about hatching the concept of a Ronald Reagan mask-wearing slasher pic and hippies.

David Arquette:

“I was at an outdoor music festival and the sun was going down and we were surrounded by Red Wood trees and I thought wouldn’t it be crazy if a killer came out of the woods and started hacking up all these hippies. That was for the hippy part and then I grew up in LA when Reagan was President and Governor and I saw that some of his policies had a direct effect on the world around me. So I wanted to make a statement about that, but it wasn’t until I saw a Reagan mask at a friend’s house that I kind of clicked that I was going to make a horror film about Reagan.” ...- Read the whole interview.

"Hot Fuzz" Interviews: Director/Co-Writer Edgar Wright, star / Co-Writer Simon Pegg and star Nick Frost.

They’re asked about the difference between American audiences and British audiences.

Edgar Wright:

“American audiences are a lot more vocal, if you’re watching like a big action film or a comedy, it’s a great thing. The British will tend to go *claps rapidly and lightly* but only at the very end! American audiences, I mean you can literally see the set points throughout the film where you know there’ll be a massive clap or a round of applause.” ...- Read the whole interview.

"Grindhouse" Interviews" - Actresses Zoe Bell and Tracie Thoms for Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof"

When asked about working with the rest of the cast:

Zoe: "We got along like a house on fire. We really had a lot of fun."

Tracie: "Yeah we miss it!"

Zoe: "And Quentin's such a legend, you know what I mean? ...- Read the whole interview.

He’s asked about whether he had any monsters when he was younger.

Doug Jones:

“My own monsters were hideous insecurity. I had trouble going out, I had trouble leaving the house because I was picked on, made fun of “Tall skinny geek.”…”  He jokes – “I know, it’s hard to believe, look at me now”...- Read the whole interview.

Did you ever have to explain to the younger stars that what you were doing was just pretend?

Kristen Stewart:

“People were pretty on top of that. There were a lot of times that they really did get genuinely scared. Some of the stuff is pretty heavy to deal with. They didn’t understand, I kept screaming at them down the hallway and pick them up and throw them over my shoulder and step out a window.”...- Read the whole interview.

So what made you want to do this?

Billy Ray:

“Well, I loved what is was about. I loved the idea of exploring the world of the F.B.I. You know, start from the inside out, not in a movie cliché way but actually how things function in a building like that. I loved thematically what the movie was about from Eric’s point of view. The idea that he has this guy come into his life, forces him to re-examine how he feels about his job and how he feels about his marriage and how he feels about his religion... - Read the whole interview.

How close are the characters in relation to you?

Josh Hutcherson:

“He was much like me in a lot of ways I mean we’re both artists in a sense that he liked to draw and he’s that kind of artist and I’m an actor. I think all artists have some sort of common ground with each other, that they create things using their imagination. ”...- Read the whole interview.

So why did you want to do this project?

AnnaSophia Robb:

“Well, it’s just such a timeless story. It’s a story worth telling and it’s really important for kids to hear, read or watch a story like “Bridge” because it’s like real life you know? Bad things happen and you’re sad that you have to go through and so it just teaches the value of friendship and how important friends can be and how they impact your life and how you can be a good friend. It’s just really good for people in general?”...- Read the whole interview.

What was it like for you as a director to create something that everyone creates differently in their minds?

Gabor Csupo:

“We were very conscious about the fact that we wanted to blend the Terabithian characters and the story back to the kids’ real life and try to mirror their every day struggles and problems because we wanted to manifest some of the real-life characters into their dreams.” ...- Read the whole interview.

Your mother wrote this for you?

David Paterson:

“You know she wrote it because of the tragedy that happened to me. I was eight years old and she wrote it when I initially tried to make sense of a senseless tragedy, my best friend was struck by lightning. Which of course nobody would ever believe in a book or a film, that something that awful would happen. So after she finished it, she let me read it because she wasn’t gonna even send it to a publisher until she got my approval...- Read the whole interview.

The film shows you had quite a hard time being recognized. Was that a bit over the top?

“No, no that wasn’t over the top at all, let me tell you it was underplayed. I was treated either with indifference or total hostility by some of these guys. It upset me because I was their biggest fan. Here I am a season ticket holder…but you know I could understand it my next year because I’d see some free agents or some people coming in and they’re just taking jobs away. I can understand why they were indifferent or hostile. I was hostile at times. I was hostile when others walked in with a bit of a chip on their shoulders. I came in, I kept my mouth shut, I was very low key like Mark was in the movie. I let my actions speak for themselves and some guys didn’t like that.”…- Read the whole interview.

When asked when he first took an interest in being a filmmaker:

“Well I mean I was interested I guess in telling stories when I was young from a young age. My grandfather, my mother’s father is an artists, he’s a surrealist artist but he made his life doing covers for Agatha Christie’s books. So he was next door neighbors with Edward Gorey so every summer I’d spend time with him and he’d have people pose as Ms. Marple or people posing…like hanging from trees or with their guts straight out. I guess I was sort of a morbid kid and my mom is a short story writer and a hospice nurse so it sort of shaped my interest." …- Read the whole interview.

When asked who he admires in the film and music industries:

“I admire the whole cast. I admire Eddie, Danny Glover, I admire Jennifer for taking on the acting so strongly. I love Denzel, James Earl Jones whom I had a chance to work with. I mean the list just goes on and on. Johnny Depp…I’m a fan first so I can sit here all day naming people I admire. Musically…I love Stevie Wonder…I love Sting, I love, I love Marvin Gaye, I love Michael Jackson, Sade. I love the eightees – Duran Duran, Peter Gabriel. I love U2. My musical tastes span pretty wide.” …- Read the whole interview.

I hear that Ellroy’s a fan of Joseph Wambauch and ask “How do you feel his writing has influenced your style of writing.”

“Not my style of writing at all. As a stylist…I’m one of a kind.” Joseph Waumbach was a Los Angeles policeman turned novelist. He rendered the L.A.P.D. from 1960 to 1985, great, great star, great flair. He’s one of the great writers about the lives of men…the two others being Dashiell Hammett and me.” I think again “If you say so…”- Read the whole interview.

Where were you during 911?

I was asleep in L.A. It was early. My wife woke me up, put the TV on. It was quite a surprise, but you know you have to keep it in perspective. You do, that’s what we lost that day. I’ve been to Vietnam, I’ve seen a lot of killing, I see a lot of that sh#t, fire and we saw Oklahoma city, which was devastating. JFK’s assassination, Watergate, Nixon. So much sh#t you know, why all of a sudden...it was Bush’s what political manipulation…he used it very well, that’s all I can say. It was overdone, overreacted to. Should have killed the two thousand quietly. Hey by the way you know the British, the French, the Germans, the Italians and the English fought terrorism in the big way in the 70’s and 80’s and they won covertly...- Read the whole interview.

So you were in New York at the time?

“I was. I was in the upper west side. I was there for a movie premiere with my six month-old baby and my parents. I walked out to the newsstand to get a pack of cigarettes and it was bizarrely quiet and this woman turned to me and said “I haven’t smoked for eleven years, do you have a cigarette?” I said “Why?” She said “A plane just flew into the World Trade Center.” I went back up stairs and saw the second plane go through and then they asked for nurses and doctors downtown and my mom’s a nurse from Philadelphia. .." - Read the whole interview .

Were the scenes with Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena accurate?

“Yeah, they were. That was the part that was difficult because they were all very accurate. The only part that wasn’t was the “Starsky & Hutch.” We try to make that clear…let me put it this way – the serious parts of it were basically word for word. The more humorous parts they kind of used their artistic creations there.” --- Read the whole interview.

Channing’s asked about the transition from modeling to acting:

“It’s so much more filling. You know modeling is not good, you know it was fun, you got to travel a lot but you don’t really get to put any of yourself into it. You put the clothes they tell you to out on and then get whatever look that they want and that’s pretty much it. But I’m not saying anything bad about because it pretty much afforded me the opportunity to go after something that I’ve found out that I’m infatuated with and that I love. It’s opened doors for me. Thank God my genetics my parents gave me have afforded me those opportunities so I never say that it was an awful experience. Some models say “I hate modeling.”....- Read the whole interview .

On the demand of the dancing in "Step Up."

“It was very demanding. I learned a lot of dances, a lot of different techniques, a lot of different choreography and partnering with Channing who had never partnered before much less done choreography. So, you know there was a lot of work but overall but it was just as much work as I probably would have done on a dance show with Janet or something like that. It was equal but it was so much to have to learn to work with the other person and create a dance partner and dance partner, it’s very important....- Read the whole interview .

Ms. Sidora talks a little about playing a younger character:

“Longevity is incredible and in this film we’re high school students and she’s very innocent but you see her have a little growth at the end when she overcomes her little situation with relationships and all that so I can identify with that. Everybody goes through that at some point in their life. She’s sassy and sophisticated and she’s always telling Nora what to do. Then she realizes that the same advice she has to give her friend, she has to give herself. She’s loyal, she’s real, she’s a great dancer but she’s pushing herself to be this great singer. She’s got all that confidence so I definitely saw a lot of similarities between us.”....- Read the whole interview.

What was Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson’s reaction of towards making this? Were they hesitant?

“They were, and you could imagine that both of them would be “Yes, please let’s do it” but none of them were really chomping at the bit. Brian was more interested in doing the Clerks cartoon instead. When I said “Dude, I’m thinking of doing a Clerks sequel.” He said “Oh, you mean the cartoon?” I said “No, live action.” And he was like “Oh…I’d prefer to do the cartoon.” Then I said “Really, instead of being on camera?” then he was like “Yeah, I guess that would be fun....- Read the whole interview .

Are you optimistic about the future?

“Very. Battery technology has dramatically improved since we started with what became the EV1. When we started on the EV1 which was 1988 we had at that point in time really only one candidate battery and that was the sealed lead acid battery and if you did everything right with that battery technology you could get a 100 mile range. The next generation of technology was the nickel level hydride and I did not expect that battery to evolve to the point that it did. It gives you an increase of somewhere around 50% in range. The really exciting thing is the lithium battery technology which stores six times the amount of energy per unit weight in comparison to the lead acid.”...- Read the whole interview .