Speed Racer Quotes

• On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

  Emile Hirsch

  Self, Imagination, Acting

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• Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason. I don't know.

  Emile Hirsch

  Morning, Kids, Cereal

  "7 Questions with Emile Hirsch". Interview with John Newlin, www.zimbio.com. May 7, 2008.

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• A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

  Emile Hirsch

  Color, Focus, Tone

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". The Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

  Emile Hirsch

  Grateful, Thinking, Alaska

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