| WEINTRAUB on
how Vegas has changed since he produced the original movie in 1960:
"Vegas was completely different in those days. There were five hotels and
they were each owned by a different city in America, and they were each owned
by the mob in that city. Today it's all corporate, so it's a completely
different atmosphere than it was in those days. Filming in Vegas was all pros
and no cons - they were very helpful to us at the hotels. It's a hundred
billion dollar set that you couldn't recreate in Hollywood or anywhere in the
world. It also gave the actors the feeling of robbing these casinos - nobody
knows how much money George and Matt won, but it's a great deal."
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ANDY GARCIA on his
role of Terry Benedict:
"I had to find a ruthless aspect in the character in order to service the
movie. I had to bring out certain qualities that empowered my character as
someone you dislike, because ultimately we want to be rooting for George's
character and the eleven guys. It was great to be able to act in the actual
casinos. When I'd go on the set it was my casino. It's an actor's dream to be
able to play a character in the real environment."
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CLOONEY:
"This is the part of method acting that crosses into delusion, when Andy
was losing money at the blackjack table and he's asking for it back because
it's his casino! I'm a method actor, so I've spent years training for the
drinking and carousing that I had to do in this film. I was perfectly prepared
for it."
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PITT on Clooney's
reputation for doing practical jokes:
"George can imitate Jerry Weintraub's voice so well that he convinced the
hotel a couple of times to leave some 5:45 a.m. wake up calls when we were on
night shoots. Jerry would scramble through his room to pick up the phone, and
it would be his wake up call, and he would scream at the person on the other
end who would say, 'But Mr. Weintraub, we talked with you last night at 11:30
p.m. and you said to call you at 5:45 a.m.' That happened a lot."
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ROBERTS on working
again with Soderbergh (after Erin Brockovich)
"I just really like Steven, and I think that he has a very deep respect
and appreciation for movies and a great story told well. I have reckless
abandon when it comes to my job and he has precision, and I think those two
thing work together."
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"I think there's a universal fascination with heist movies. I've always
loved them. Everybody has given money to a casino, so it's a much easier world
to rob from. It's the Robin Hood world." 