“A few days ago I got an offer to do ‘Tetris.’ I’m like, “What the fuck are you talking about? This is totally absurd.” They said, “No, this would be a revolution in video-game movies.” I said, “Yes it would be the revolution, but it would also be completely the end of my career.” – Video-game adapting director Uwe Boll might be a notorious hack, but even he knows when to draw the line. [Time Out]
“[Laughs.] You know, the serial-killer thing didn’t interest me at all. In the ’70s, everybody was making disaster movies. If I’d made ‘The Cell’ in the ’70s, it would have been about a burning building, with a guy having a dream on the 14th floor.” – Masturbatory visualist Tarsem admits that he could give a shit about the plot of any of his movies. He makes whatever the studios want just as a larger excuse to make onanistic pretty pictures. [A/V Club]
“It’s in writing, but is it the truth?” – Clint Eastwood had to be told by reporters that his new Cannes directorial effort “The Changeling,” had its title altered to “The Exchange”. “That’s news to us,” star Angelina Jolie said. We don’t really care because upon further viewing all of Eastwood’s films in this past decade feel like Cinemax thrillers or hokey Oscar-bait.[AFP]
“I used the Internet absurdity to portray myself as a Bavarian Nazi retard. A lot of people who hated my other movies wrote me to say that they really liked this one. From this point of view, Postal has definitely helped my career already.” – Uwe Boll is amusingly naive. [Time Out]