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MARCOS SIEGA:
“I remember thinking this was a totally absurd and ridiculous story, but at the same time it was such a clever commentary on our society. I knew I wanted to direct it because it was so much smarter than other scripts I had read. I felt I could do something with the material that didn’t suffer from the trappings and conventions of a regular teen movie.”
JAMES WOODS (Hank Joyce):
“I really don’t want to act anymore, and people say why and I say, ‘Have you been to the movies lately? I mean they’re just horrible.’ And I was sent this script and I said to the agent at the time, ‘What’s the deal?’ And he said, ‘They’ve offered it to you,’ and I said the answer was yes. Are you kidding, this is hilarious and so right on target. It’s so not politically correct.”
EVAN RACHEL WOOD:
“I didn’t want Kimberly to be how everybody expects that character to be – stupid and mean, and that’s it. I just wanted to make her a real person, even if she was doing all these horrible things. I wanted you to know why she was doing these things, and if any of this could have been prevented; for you to feel for her by the end of the film.”
MARCOS SIEGA:
“I felt a script with such a heightened sense of reality, with such absurd characters, needed to be visually toned down and subdued. I had all these ideas in my head about making it feel timeless and shooting it in a very specific style. I also wanted to give it a slow pace that was in direct contrast to the fast talking exaggerated dialogue.”
JAMES WOODS:
“I heard that Evan was going to be in the film and that was great. I was hoping she’d be a little nice, and she turned out to be this absolute dream and the most talented actor I’ve worked with in a decade. Honestly, I think she’s one of the greatest actors ever. You can’t imagine how talented she is.”
EVAN RACHEL WOOD:
“I think teenagers should go and see the film. I like the fact that the movie has a certain amount of gray at the end, so that the teenagers who go and see it, they’re laughing at it – ha, ha, this is so funny, and then something terrible happens and you realize, ‘Oh, there are real consequences for what was going on and that was actually really bad.’ So I think it would be great to have that moment or realization, okay, I laughed at that, but that was actually not so funny.”
JAMES WOODS:
“I have to say I admire the Goldwyn Company, because they stood up and paid the freight and that’s why we’re here. This is the movie that we wanted to make.”
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