The Most Candid, Outrageous Quotes From Our Last Year in Interviews

Francis Ford Coppola on the Godfather franchise:

"I don't think Godfather ever should have had more than one movie, actually. It was not a serial, it was a drama. The first movie wrapped up everything. To make more than one Godfather was just greed. Basically, making a movie costs so much money that they want it to be like Coca-Cola: you just make the same thing over and over again to make money, which is what they're doing now. But Godfather was not really a serial, you know? I mean, how would you spin off Hamlet?"

Thomas Jane on whether Hung has helped his sexual reputation:

"Thank God I'm married. Some of my single friends are envious. Personally I'm very happily married to one of the most beautiful women on the planet, Patricia Arquette. We've been together almost eight years and she still turns me on, and I couldn't be happier. It's a bit of a pain in the ass, to tell you the truth. People stare at my crotch and I have to tell them I'm up here. It becomes something of a 'meat' object. Before this Hung thing, I was very comfortable. I love my penis, and I always have. When you strap a label on yourself, you can never really live up to it. I swear to God I feel like I've gotten smaller since then."

Megan Mullally on Conan vs. Leno:

"I was driving home last night and thinking I miss Conan's face and his whole sensibility...Could it be any more bald-faced that [Leno is] going after the red states? It's insane. It's just right out there, full on. Amazing."

Scott Speedman on his career crossroads:

"Nothing is easy. It's never easy...I'm not out there doing talk shows, and I haven't really connected with that part of the business that's really important. I'm trying to get better at it, because I'm losing parts to people I shouldn't be losing parts to."

The Tillman Story director Amir Bar-Lev on how an important Obama Administration figure was complicit in the cover-up of Pat Tillman's death:

"General McChrystal is just one of several high-ranking figures who's never been called to account for his role, and the story continues to this very moment. He gets up there at his swearing-in and basically says what has been said all along, which is, 'I know what it looks like. I know that it looks like we deliberately covered it up, but believe us that it was this Rube Goldberg-esque chain of mistakes, blunders, and errors that look like a cover-up.' The only f***ing idiots who buy that, the only fools who believe that, are the mainstream press. It's just so clear to everyone else, and it's the equivalent of saying, 'Honey, I know that it looks like I'm f***ing your sister, but actually I dropped my wallet, and then my belt fell down, and she happened to be there.' That's what the military has done in the Pat Tillman case."

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