When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.
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SALINGER It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to se... ANDRA DAY I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favor... ZOE LISTER-JONES I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movie... SEAN PENN It'd be great to do some other TV. 'Breaking Bad' is definitely my home, but I'd lov... BETSY BRANDT Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the &... ELODIE YUNG What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better? 'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today GILLIAN HOVELL, 'VISITING THE PAST' If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day... CESAR ROMERO It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to '... BEN HARDY As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it... REGGIE WATTS When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your car... JAMES CORDEN So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, t... LOUIS C. K. On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses ava... ADAM D'ANGELO But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once ... KEANU REEVES In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the ... TOM HOOPER I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers... NELSON ALGREN You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a ... CHARLOTTE RAE When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goo... RAINA TELGEMEIER I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are co... EDDIE HUANG There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked m... PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X... SPIKE LEE We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Wood... BUZZ OSBORNE Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would r... NOAH BAUMBACH It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.... LAURIE HOLDEN The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v... TONY KUSHNER Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end... BILLY GRAHAM Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it'... WILL FERRELL To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and,... JILL SOLOWAY It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... LAILA ALI 'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn... BRENDON URIE I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst par... ALLEN IVERSON I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ... PARKER YOUNG I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s... N. K. JEMISIN '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Bla... DENIS VILLENEUVE I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material. KATE CLINTON It's really surreal to be in something under the 'Goosebumps' title. DYLAN MINNETTE 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' ... JOHN GRANT When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn... DON MCLEAN My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too. GERRY ANDERSON I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by num... M.I.A. I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron... DAN SAVAGE Remember that film 'Sliding Doors,' when John Hannah woos Gwyneth Paltrow by reciting Monty ... STEPHEN MERCHANT 'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
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