Word: jg
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...JG: I grew up in New York and was living in Queens until I was 18, and then went to University of Southern Crappola [USC] film school. It's a wonderful program, but it's much less my taste than I would have appreciated. I remember freshman orientation when they went around the room and said, what is it that you're into, what movies do you love, why are you here? I remember they went around the room and it was like, Jaws, Star Wars, Star Wars, Jaws, Star Wars, Star Wars, Eight and a Half, Jaws, Star Wars...
...JG: I have had nothing but great relationships with actors. I've never had an actor that I've had a horrible time with. I don't know why. Well, in Redgrave's case, I don't see her so much as a diva as someone is just as close to genius as anyone I've ever known. I mean, you hear that all the time, it's like genius, genius, genius, they call everyone a genius, right? Like, he's a genius of sanitary engineering, everyone's a genius. But it would be very difficult to dispute Vanessa Redgrave...
...JG: He's also very good. We actually talked about that a lot, the style of performance that he gives in the movie. This is a totally sophomoric approach to creating a character, to characterization-it is one of the high school staples of this country to read Kafka's Metamorphosis. But I gave him the Metemorphisis to read for that character because I had wanted him to be almost this sort of Gregor Samsesque character. In fact I designed the set of his apartment, with that really long hallway to his room, straight from that story. And maybe this...
...JG: She's pretty transformative. Actually, I was very surprised by how good she was. I cast her because she was dying to do it. She kept calling me up. And I was like, "Why do you want to do the movie so badly?" And it turns out she had issues with her stepfather; I think what made her really connect to is was the scene where she goes to see James Caan. After saying fuck you the whole movie, she says, I'm sorry I've been horrible to you but please help Wahlberg. And I think that...
...JG: Is this the General Tsao's Chicken? Is this chicken...