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Kate Winslet on her The Reader character (via Agence France Presse):
"I had to make her a human being. I had to make her a woman who was capable of great love and affection and warmth as well as the vulnerability and the shame that she feels. And she also had to be a woman who had at least some level of courage, certainly when she starts serving her prison sentence."
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"Quite a lot has been made of the love scenes and made of David [Kross]'s age and he's 18, he's a young man, he's extremely professional and he's absolutely brilliant in the film. For me, it was all about making sure David understood exactly what was going to be happening whilst we were shooting those scenes because I've been in the position that I think Daniel was in — really not knowing what it was going to be like, how many people would be in the room.
"But the truth is, at the end of the day, it is part of this job and it's a very, very important part of this love story so we just got on with it really, and dare I say it, we actually kind of had a laugh."
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The International at the Berlinale 2009 (via Reuters):
"The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, was contrived years before the banking crisis hit, but German director Tom Tykwer said that what has happened on the markets did not come as a complete surprise.
"'Back then many people said, is it actually feasible that a private bank is the villain in a movie?' he told Reuters.
"'But we instinctively … said this is a reality we have to formulate because this represents a system that is about to torpedo itself,' said the maker of the critically acclaimed Run Lola Run. 'And the fact this is actually happening now is a grotesque coincidence.'"
Kansas Silent Film Festival 2009
Sundance 2009: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere