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6 Sep, 2014

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Winter talks about coming up with the idea to create the HBO series Boardwalk Empire:

We were looking for something to do after The Sopranos, which I was just finishing up. They handed me the book, said they had it under option, and wanted to see if I thought there was a TV series in it. Then, almost as an afterthought, they said, By the way, Martin Scorsese is attached to it. I said, Okay. I don’t even have to read it. Yes, there’s a TV series in it and I’m going to figure it out… The book itself is essentially a history of Atlantic City from the time it was a mosquito-infested swamp until the present day. When I hit the chapter on the Prohibition years and specifically about this guy, Nucky Johnson, I said, That’s the show!

19 Aug, 2014

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Plouffe gives his thoughts on being the campaign manager for Obama:

I’m a competitive person. Elections are nothing about doing well. You win or lose, and I love to win, and it feels absolutely terrible when you lose. We built something from scratch, he continues and we beat Hillary Clinton and John McCain. That’s like, uh, beating the L. A. Lakers and the Boston Celtics to win the championship. If he had lost, I’d have felt like I let the country down.

18 Aug, 2014

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Weiner talks about balancing the end of his show Mad Men with his directorial film debut, Are You Here in an interview with Esquire Magazine. 

It’s the fulfillment of dreams and also super-emotional. It’s very exciting to have the movie come out, it’s been a long time in the making, and the timing is a good distraction, although I’m still in the middle of post-production on the show. Ending the show was a huge thing in my life.

22 May, 2014

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Seinfeld discusses appearing on Comedians in Cars in an interview with Esquire Magazine.

Jon Stewart, Robert Klein, Aziz Ansari, Sarah Jessica Parker, George Wallace. And I’ve done three of the five. Have two more to go. And it’s gone very well. The whole thing is leading me around now. It was really just an experiment. But I love the potential that a technology like the Internet gives a guy like me. I thought, What if I just put something out and didn’t say anything about it? People would probably start moving it around for me. It’s very self-promoting. Unlike traditional network or movies, where you got to hustle your butt off to get people to notice something, I said, This thing, it’ll do it itself.

18 May, 2014

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Slattery discusses the making of the film God’s Pocket:

So I read the book about ten years ago and I tried to get the rights but was told they were owned by someone else. And I was told in the beginning that Peter had written a screenplay of the book back in the ’80s. Over the years I kept basically downloading the book into screenplay form and rearranging things and showing it to people and a couple of years later near the end of that process I showed it to Alex [Metcalf] and we wrote a draft together. And as I tried to get the rights again, I though what would have Peter Dexter added to the screenplay that isn’t in the book? So I realized all I need was the book, so I didn’t really look at his screenplay.

18 Apr, 2014

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Graham gives her thoughts on being cast as a sexy mother:

Maybe, I don’t know. I’m just glad to be working. I’m not actually a mom in real life, so it’s fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you’re given. You can find the silver lining in anything.

12 Mar, 2014

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Wilkinson speaks about designing Superman’s costume for the upcoming movie Batman vs. Superman in an interview with Esquire Magazine. 

There was some pressure, although I have to preface it by saying that when the director Zack Snyder asked me to work on Man of Steel, I was already working on another project. So he started off with another costume designer, James Acheson, who developed the suit, and then I came in and finished the development and designed all the other costumes in the film. We were so thrilled to be able to contribute to the look of Superman in the 21st century.

11 Mar, 2014

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Rapaport speaks about playing the role of Daryl Crowe Jr. in the television show Justified:

I knew he was going to be a bad guy. I was familiar with the show, but I didn’t have an outline for the season, or the arc. But I knew the pedigree of the show and the writing. They’ve brought in a lot of good actors over the years. I try to make him as true as possible, his point of view to be understood as much as possible. His whole agenda is to take care of his family. It just doesn’t always seem that way.

2 Mar, 2014

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Fukunaga speaks about if he has any favorite episodes of HBO’s True Detective that he’s directed:

There’s not one. There are scenes that after we shot we were like, That was a fun scene to shoot, or the guys were really on fire in that scene. The scenes I enjoyed a lot between McConaughey and Harrelson, there were two: One is when they are in the locker room and Cohle makes a comment about Hart’s wife’s pussy, and the other one is the two of them after the hospital in episode four, having drinks at the bar and Hart is trying to have a heart-to-heart with Cohle and Cohle doesn’t want to.

19 Feb, 2014

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Hill talks about directing the movie The Warriors:

My friend Larry Gordon, who produced several of my movies around that time, had optioned the book quite a few years before. He threw it to me one day and said, You might want to read this. He had not been able to get it going. I read it and said, Yeah, this would make a really good movie. I don’t think anyone will ever let me make it, but it’s such a pure chase story. There’s an elegance and simplicity to the story that really appealed to me.

17 Feb, 2014

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Bacon talks about appearing in the movie Animal House:

Animal House was my first movie, so I didn’t have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can’t say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar. And I remember having a horrible time because nobody was recognizing me, and I went back to the bar to hang out for the rest of the night.

11 Feb, 2014

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Olyphant speaks about being co-executive producer of the FX show Justified:

Honestly, I don’t think I’m doing anything different this season than I’ve done in any other seasons. It’s just now on the up and up with the title, meaning I’ve been a big pain in their ass from the jump. I was never not a pain in the ass. It’s now just official pain in the ass. That title is not available, so instead they gave me co-executive producer.

7 Feb, 2014

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Mancusso talks about competing in her fourth Winter Olympics:

For sure it’s exciting. Because it gets kind of mundane and repetitive going World Cup to World Cup. I mean, the venue changes. It’s definitely a big stage and a big opportunity. Even though the races are very similar, there’s a lot more on the line. For me it’s really cool because our sport is really European, so you get to show off what you do to your friends and family and they can actually follow along.

4 Feb, 2014

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Fumero talks about her show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine winning a Golden Globe Award:

Total underdogs. We did not expect that to happen at all. All of our conversations leading up to the Globes, we were like, We can’t believe we are going. Maybe we will see so-and-so from our favorite show. What are you wearing? How are you wearing your hair? That’s all the conversation that we were having. Not one person on the cast was like, “Maybe we might win. This might happen. Did not expect it all. When Andy won we were just like so shocked and so happy for him. The entire table was crying after he won. And then we heard them say Brooklyn Nine-Nine, we just all jumped up, and were totally stunned.

30 Jan, 2014

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Hoffman discusses the film The Master taking three years to develop:

That’s the best way to do a film. That’s the way you rehearse — you develop it, you work with the writer and director and talk and bullshit, and then you eventually shoot and you’re on the same page. Film’s hard when you don’t have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. But that doesn’t happen so often with me.

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Novakovic speaks about starring in the television show Rake:

The funny thing is that it’s so hard to talk about, because my character changes all the time. In the beginning she’s a high-class escort and her relationship with Keegan [Greg Kinnear] is questionable. Are they friends, is it something more? Is it business? What is it? And then everything keeps changing to the point where I’m waiting to read the next episode to find out what’s going on with me.

17 Jan, 2014

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Beckford gives his thoughts on returning to model for Polo:

I’m beyond excited and ecstatic. I don’t even have words for it. Once you’ve gone out and worked for other brands after you’ve worked for Ralph Lauren, you really realize how much they have their stuff together. Everything they do is so on-point. As my guy says in Ocean’s Eleven, “It’s good to be working with some proper people again.

12 Jan, 2014

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DiCaprio talks about what comes with being the lead in a movie:

There’s so much more responsibility in being a lead. There’s the arc of that character and how each of your decisions affects the story line. When I was in Gilbert Grape, I could spit spaghetti out and climb trees and make any noise I wanted, because Johnny had to move the story along, for the story to make sense.

27 Dec, 2013

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Astbury talks about the public’s perception of him as an enigma:

Really? It’s strange because I don’t objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they’re usually awful. As you get older, it’s just, “Aww…” The last videos we did, Honey from a Knife, we’re not even in it! And for the Animals video, we’re only in a cameo. The most important thing for us is putting our music out there. The idea of being icons, I think it’s great when you’re 24. It’s fantastic. I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really. Adam Levine is good at that.

17 Dec, 2013

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Costello speaks about being an angry young man earlier in his music career:

I went to quite some lengths a number of years ago—30 years ago now, nearly—to dismantle the initial character that was sort of a contrivance between my naturally inappropriate appearance for the job of rock ‘n’ roll singer and, to be honest, my natural reticence and shyness.