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ANGELA ROBINSON:
“I saw The Love Bug on TV, and I went outside to my parents’ car and I thought it would be alive. I was tremendously disappointed. I was trying to get it to communicate with me.”
LINDSAY LOHAN (Maggie):
“I had fun going to driving school for the movie. I went to the Richard Petty Experience, and I was going to drive, and our director, Angela Robinson, got in the car and she drove on the track – I was too scared. Then I got in the car with this guy and we went 190-195 miles an hour. We got so close to the wall I was screaming. I almost started crying, I thought I was going to die.”
MATT DILLON (Trip) on playing a Disney villain:
“He’s a kinder, gentler villain, or at least he’s all-audience friendly. When I first read the script I said, ‘I don’t think so,’ because the character had not really been thoroughly fleshed out, but I spoke with Angela and she had a lot of interesting ideas. One of the models was Apollo Creed in Rocky. Trip is a guy whose own ego, his own scheming, his own narcissism is what is his undoing, not Herbie. I liked that idea.”
MICHAEL KEATON (Ray):
“You have to be dead not to know that there was a movie named Herbie that was a car, but that’s almost all I knew. I read the script and I thought it was really good, and I thought it was a good idea to be in a movie like this. These things have huge longevity, you become not only a part of movie culture, but you kind of become part of American culture.”
ROBINSON:
“I love Matt Dillon. I think he’s so hilarious. He had a lot of input into his character. It was fun to work with him because he’s so serious about his comedy.”
DILLON:
“Well, comedy is serious business, after all. I don’t think I was too serious about it. I’m very professional and serious about my work, so maybe that’s what she meant.”
LOHAN:
“Michael is great [she sings the Batman theme]. He was very parental towards me and he was very nice, and I needed that at that time. Matt’s incredible and he’s amazing to watch, because he gets so intense and into it. Sometimes I actually made fun of him. I learned a lot from both of them, and I’d love to work with them again.”
ROBINSON:
“There’s this great moment in the movie where Herbie is going around the track and the crowd is cheering, and that actually happened. The crowd was like, ‘Herbie’s out there!’”
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