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“I’ve always had a bit of a walk—this girl’s got hips—but on the show it’s exaggerated. The first day, I put on those [retro] undergarments, and I was walking around the office like, boom, boom, boom! They called ‘Cut,’ and I turned to [creator] Matt Weiner and said, ‘That was Joan.’ And he said, ‘That was Joan.’ It all just dropped into place.” — Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks (Page Six)

– “Not only do I not know how I’m going to sell this, but I also don’t know if I want to sell it. I don’t want to figure out a way to trick people into seeing this movie. If it’s not your thing, you shouldn’t see it. It’s not going to be for all people—that’s what I’m learning. There are people who are not going to respond to it. And that’s fine. I don’t want to trick them… Synecdoche is not going to give you anything like, ‘Oh, it’s a dream or it’s a portal into John Malkovich or it’s a secret memory-erasing drug or whatever the hell it is.’ It’s not going to happen. This guy’s life is going to play out and you’re going to watch him age and you’re going to watch him not succeed at what he wants to do and have lousy relationships and you’re going to watch him die. — Charlie Kaufman mopes around with Vice (via The Michael Ryan)

– “I didn’t know what Junebug would be like… They were making it for under $1 million—you just don’t know when you’re involved in smaller projects if they’re going to be seen.” — Amy Adams, once one Oscar nominated gig away from leaving the business altogether (Vanity Fair)

– “I don’t mind being nude onscreen. Or anywhere, really. But having someone touch you on camera is really … [long pause] It’s really kind of an awful experience. Because half of your brain is like, ‘Okay, I wanna make this look real, because I want it to feel real for the audience,’but then you’re also fighting to say, ‘But it’s not real.’ But it is actually real, because somebody is actually touching you. That kind of work that you have to do to disassociate from your body is kind of traumatic. I don’t enjoy that at all. It’s … gross. — Mumblecore muse Greta Gerwig on Nights and Weekends (Vulture)