"Why don't you guys just start remaking your hits?"

2008-06-02 20:00:02

The world in quotes: "They have to make Bourne Identity before they make Bourne Ultimatum. They don't really want to make Bourne Identity because it's a trial thing. But they really want to make Bourne Ultimatum. So it was an idea I had--you know, why don't you guys just start remaking your hits."        —Gus Van Sant on his shot-for-shot "Psycho" remake at The Believer. (The complete interview is not, alas, online.) "This is a cheap way for Seven Stories to get my story. And it's disgusting they're using celebrity names to sell it. I'm not interested in making a career of JT, I'm an artist."        —Laura "JT LeRoy" Albert on collaborator Savannah Knoop's book deal to write "Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy" at the New York Post. "I had just done A Mighty Heart and was scheduled to do Changeling, which is about the kidnapping of a...

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