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Alison Willmore

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By Alison Willmore on 04/23/2008

Filed under: In quotes

Another tour around the interview circuit:

"It's been axiomatic that documentaries are incapable of presenting the entire truth since the LumiÃ¨re brothers first pointed a camera at workers leaving a factory, then got them to leave all over again for a second take."
—Guy Maddin on the blurry line between doc and narrative at the Village Voice

"[C]ome on! Planet of the Apes? It was so below what we were doing!"
—Dan Richter on playing the ape with the bone at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey," at New York

"That had one of the best martial-arts fight scenes I've ever seen. Astonishing. I bought it for that. Fight choreography? Yeah, what choreography? As action movies go, I don't know how you could do better than that one."
—Lou Reed (who apparently finally tied the knot with Laurie Anderson) on "The Bourne Ultimatum," at the Washington Post

"Since I've become a father my attitudes have changed. I see my son play around with something for hours. I try to do that now with cinema."
—Fatih Akin on "The Edge of Heaven" at the Sydney Morning Herald

"That month where I was smoking constantly, I thought it would be like when you catch a little kid smoking cigarettes, and you make him smoke a whole pack. I wake-and-bake on occasion, and I smoke almost every evening, but smoking day in and day out for 30 days, I thought by the end, I was going to be sick of it and that would be it. I'd either smoke pot rarely, or not at all. But Day 31, partway through the day, I lit up a joint."
—Doug Benson on his "'Super Size Me' with weed" doc "Super High Me" at the Onion AV Club

"I bet Woody went longer, because I think I was there from September to October. I only went to one class. I went to the movies on 42nd Street. It wasn't NYU's fault, I don't blame them. I was out of my mind. I never went to class. Back then I was on LSD. Speed. Diet pills. I was up a lot. I had to see four movies a day; I couldn't be going to class except to steal textbooks and then go sell them back so I had money to go to the movies."
—John Waters on whether he or Woody Allen attended NYU longer, at Details [via BoingBoing]

[Photo: "My Winnipeg," IFC Films, 2007]

+ Talking With Winnipeg's Remarkably Well-Adjusted Guy Maddin (Village Voice)
+ Dan Richter on Playing the Ape in '2001', Life With John and Yoko (New York)
+ "I love to get out and see movies" (Washington Post)
+ Turkish delight (Sydney Morning Herald)
+ Doug Benson (Onion AV Club)
+ John Waters (Details)