Marc Forster
Funny you telling me
you have a crush on Julie Christie. I love her. It was tremendous to work with
her, and I had to pinch myself sometimes, working with both her and Dustin
Hoffman - two icons together. There's a scene late in the film where Johnny Depp
and Julie walk down these arches to discuss the future of the children, and she
briefs him on how she sees it. As we're shooting this, Johnny comes to me and
says, "Marc, I can't believe what I have to tell you. This woman is 60 years
old, and I still feel like kissing her!" Julie's so beautiful and so warm and
stunning, you still feel like, my god, she's gorgeous! You just want to hug her
and take her in your arms because she still has that... [indescribable
quality].
The scenes between Julie and Johnny Depp in
Neverland also have a nice friction of opposites. They're combative, albeit in a
civilized way, and there's a kind of sexiness in that; I can see why he wants to
kiss her. Even when Mrs. DuMaurier gradually changes her perception of J.M.
Barrie, her character never goes completely soft. She never turns into an old
sweetheart or anything like that.
Geoffrey Rush Quote
"I've been lucky because I do
regard myself as a slightly aging character and I've been able to be in scenes
with delightful women, like Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Goldie
Hawn. ..... It's been a perk of the job. And the prettiest of all, of course,was
Johnny Depp." - Geoffrey Rush
Roman Polanski
"It's rare that you find such a
good looking man with his abilities, his physique is his greatest asset -- it's
almost a teenager's body, in fact. Those delicate hands, a musician's
handshake...and this puerile streak in him. You look at him sometimes and think,
"How old are you?"
Talk Magazine,
1999
Javier Bardem
(actor)
"When I first saw Bon Bon
on the set, I didn't realize it was Johnny. I just looked at this girl with
heavy makeup and the big behind and thought, man, I could get into that. I still
felt that way after I realized it was Johnny. He's such a beautiful guy - who
wouldn't make love to him? And I know a lot of real girls who would like to kill
to have Bon Bon's ass."
Patrick Stewart
In the August 24 [1996] TV
Guide, Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame said, "I want to do important work.
"Dead Man" with Johnny Depp--that is a very important movie...But there's little
else I would change if I had the chance. Though, if I have my druthers, next
time I'm coming back as Johnny Depp."
Julian Schnabel
"I don't know that he knows how
good he is in that movie. He was great. I mean he really looked great in that
underwear. I mean it was just, you know, shooting going up his ass and up his
back and his hair, you started thinking about Marilyn Monroe, when he had red
hair, he looked like Sophia Loren."
UNKNOWN
Johnny Depp believes in ghosts.
He has come to this haunted place looking for one in particular, a little girl
wearing a silk party dress with a powder blue sash. She is often heard playing
in the room across the hall from where Depp is sleeping in the Mackay Mansion, a
three-story Victorian built high in the mountains of Nevada.
The small spirit likes the room. A cranberry
glass chandelier casts spirals of ruby light upon shelf after shelf, each filled
with antique French and German porcelain dolls. Side by side they sit, forty
pairs of eyes staring toward the door, waiting for her.
Depp waits as well. I want to run into some
spirits here! he says eagerly. When he isn t gazing across the hall, he s
shooting Jim Jarmusch s film Dead Man, a western set in the late 1800s, in which
he finds his mug on a wanted poster. When I was a kid I used to have these
dreams, says Depp. But they weren t dreams. I was awake, but I couldn t move. I
couldn t speak. And a face would come to me. Someone told me it was the spirit
of someone who died that was very close and never got to say something that they
wanted to say. And I believe it.
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Joan Carson
(producer)
"When I first
saw Johnny," says 21 Jump Street producer Joan Carson, "he had a felt hat pulled
down and these deep brown eyes peering out, with a coat that went to the floor.
He was cute as a bug's ear, but he looked like a waif. And I think that is part
of his appeal: He can be waiflike, but his charisma comes through.?? US Magazine
- 1989
Dustin Hoffman
"People like Johnny Depp are an
exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work
speaks volumes. He was so under-rated for so long, but he will have longevity --
and it is such a gratifying thrill to see he is finally getting the recognition
he deserves."
Liz Smith
The best moment of the night
at AmFAR's big fund-raiser/auction in Cannes last Thursday came when Miramax
honcho, the boisterous Harvey Weinstein "bought" Paul Sorvino, paying $20,000 to
hear Sorvino sing. (Paul has a strong, surprisingly good voice!) Weinstein, a
big practical joker, had Sorvino serenade Johnny Depp and Sean Penn, who were
also attending the AIDS event. The two actors got right into the spirit of the
gag, embracing, weeping, exchanging rings. When it was all over, Depp leaned
back in his chair, and lit up a cig, like men often do after sex. It brought
down the house. AmFAR raised more than $700,000 in the fight for the cure.?
5/18/97
Hunter S. Thompson
"Johnny seems happy with
his new gratrification. But he's too smart to be really happy. He's too prone to
walking out to the edge of a limb. He's a hillbilly in his soul."
Allen Hughes (Director of
"From Hell")
"We
haven't had the experience of temper tantrums and people running into their
trailers. We talked about casting one of those guys just so we could get past
it. We screwed up with Johnny Depp, who is the sweetest person on the planet and
does none of that... He's coming tomorrow to Prague. I want to tongue-kiss
Johnny Depp!"
AmZ (in response to an author
comparing Johnny to Tom Cruise) I think Johnny's beyond-charisma is a
really basic and fundamental aspect of his personality, which is why Cruise
will never match it, no matter how hard he tries.
There is an old stage concept in the
theatre: the test by cat. It's a sort of mental exercise. A cat is brought
out on stage and an actor comes on with it. The cat does whatever it wants,
the actor launches into something dramatic. The test of a good actor is
whether or not the audience wil be looking at him emoting or at the cat
napping on a chair. In the vast majority of cases, the cat wins.
It always has seemed to me that Tom Cruise
is that hard-working but ultimately boring actor earning his bread with the
sweat o' his brow, and Johnny Depp is that cat. He can take a nap, chase
lint, stretch, yawn, sit perfectly still or move around, look at the
audience or not look at the audience - it doesn't matter. All eyes will be
riveted on him. And when he gets bored with being gawked at and trots off
stage for a snack, the audience will know beyond all shadow of doubt that
the loss is all theirs. The only thing that will keep them in their seats -
besides their bourgeois sense of social sensibility and propriety - is the
hope that the kitty might return.
Johnny Vegas on Johnny
"He's a very distant man, a very shadowy
character. Always dipping out late at night, coming back with muddy hands,
but we don't ask him any questions."
"He won't allow eye contact, when you talk
to him, you've just got to talk to his hand and look at his hand. No looking
at him above the nipples. I think he rates his nipples."
"He beats you with one of those pairs of
spectacles with the springy eyes. He has you tied to a chair and he hits
you, saying 'Don't you dare, you're eyes are unworthy to rest themselves on
my pretty peach-like face'. It's ten lashings for every second you look at
him."
Oprah Winfrey
"I've only seen him on the red carpet I
think during the Oscars last year and I have to tell you that when, ahh and
he was kinda all dazzled up at the Oscars. When he just walked in here,
Dean, looking like that, he is kinda breathtaking. You know he is really,
really handsome. I really do get that whole...I know (to Dean) you're a guy
and you've seen a lot of guys come through here. Was he not very
breathtaking? (Dean agrees: "breathtaking") And he is great in his new movie
'Finding Neverland' which is in theatres now."
David Koepp(director
of Secret Window) )
"You can rumple him, but you can't make him
unattractive. You can try, but it won't happen."
David Koepp
"Johnny sort of popped into my head midway
through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought
about, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is
in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive
and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to
watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to
watch."
Mel Brooks
"Very few people can stand in Gene Wilder's
shoes. But Johnny Depp is brilliant. I think he could do anything. He was
amazing as Ed Wood."
Mike Newell
"He was pushing his luck - he just wondered
how far it could be taken. Because he's a cheeky little sod as well, and
that's part of his charm."
The Hughes Brothers (directors
of From Hell)
A journalist asked them if they are afraid of
working with big movie stars.
"Not if you give them a lot of cocaine,"
joked Allen.
"On this one we got lucky," said Albert.
"We haven't had the experience of temper tantrums and people running into
their trailers."
"We talked about casting one of those guys
just so we could get past it," said Allen. "We screwed up with Johnny Depp,
who is the sweetest person on the planet and does none of that... He's
coming tomorrow to Prague. I want to tongue-kiss Johnny Depp!"
From Terry Gilliam
''Johnny isn't a method actor,he's a thorough actor and immerses himself
totally ..most actors carry it with them.We say ''cut'' and they're still in
the character and that's not Johnny..It's like working with an English
actor[working with Johnny]..we're talking about football and 'action' he's
in character,then 'cut' and we're back to telling jokes again''....I guess
you can learn this degree of concentration,train yourself...but it just
amazes me the gifts with which Johnny has been blessed."
"Depp is a gender unto himself."
-Gina Vinvinetto
'I think we formed some sort of strange religious pact... it's a form of
blackmail we have over each other.'
- TIM BURTON, explaining /to the AP why he has directed so many films
starring Johnny Depp.
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