All Seth Rogen really wanted when he came to Hollywood was to make a movie with Kevin Smith (Cue Jason Batemen from Arrested Development, “him?”).”I love porn. I watch tons of porn. The Internet speeds have evolved directly with my sexual drive,” Rogen told the AP. “I almost did it purely based on the title.” Rogen just fell about ten notches in our book.
“I thought of him as a man who never had sex. He doesn’t like human fluids, even his own. [Pauses] I don’t want to get into too many details, but I even imagined how Chigurh would masturbate,” Javier Bardem told the NYTimes. Bardem has pretty much talked non-stop about his character in “No Country For Old Men,” usually noting how the terrible haircut he had to sport in the film (which wasn’t a wig) prevented him from getting laid for about three months. Now he reminisces about Chigurh’s self-love techniques. Maybe the Coen’s should do a sequel. Bardem would obviously be game.
“`Swept Away’ is exactly the movie I wanted to make. I think people missed the irony of it. It was supposed to be a commentary on political correctness, but sort of Madonna seemed to have gotten in the way. But if you look at it, no one was making anything like that. It was revoltingly honest in its approach toward the masculine and feminine dynamic. I found it very amusing, and I like it as a movie.” – Guy Ritchie won’t apologize for “Swept Away,” no matter how many times you ask him to. [AP]
“Either you get, agree with and derive enormous delight from dry misanthropic humor…or you don’t.” – Jeffrey Wells’ loved the Coen Brothers’ “Burn After Reading,” but we swear if you’ve read his reportage closely, he’s been dying to love it since he read the script. [Hollywood Elsewhere] Live from Toronto, Wells also disliked “The Brothers Bloom,” says the Danny Glover narration from Fernando Meirelles’ “Blindness,” has been cut, he also gets in a jab at industry people vs. press people at TIFF.