“I’ve only ever used Comic Sans once. I was having trouble changing my broadband to Sky so wrote them a letter in Comic Sans, saying how disappointed I was. I got a £10 refund.”
Vincent Connare, typographer
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‘“If this is a hit,” I said, “I’ll run naked down Hollywood Boulevard.” I thought the song had a brilliant tune, but I remember listening to the lyrics and going: “Dave, man, Africa? We’re from north Hollywood. What the fuck are you writing about? ‘I bless the rains down in Africa?’ Are you Jesus, Dave?”’
Steve ‘Luke’ Lukather, guitarist
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“I was frantically running around Los Angeles, doing loads of auditions. I remember pulling over to the side of the road to finish reading Richard’s script and being mesmerised. I thought, “This is what my adolescence felt like,” although I don’t speak, and have never spoken to, rabbits.”
Jake Gyllenhaal
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“We needed someone who looked inbred for the banjo player. My assistant found this boy, Billy Redden, who looked extraordinary, but couldn’t play. So we made a shirt with an extra sleeve in it, and a musician crouched behind doing the fretwork as Redden strummed. There was a lot written afterwards about how Deliverance libelled mountain people. But the locals were thrilled with the film.”
John Boorman, director
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