It's the classic story of a man who has been done wrong and wants justice…not reputation, but justice. There's no person who can't relate to a guy who was robbed and now wants to get back what was taken from him. Andrew discovers that he's a victim not of AIDS, but of the intolerance that goes along with it–Tom Hanks

Cannes Film Fest 2007–I was committed to fill my script with things that I hadn‚Äôt seen in other movies, like new characters. Included in the film's small, anonymous Texas town are a barbecue-obsessed business-owner; a stoic and suspicious sheriff; a gun-legged go-go girl-turned-vigilante; a syringe-wielding, wobbly-wristed doctor on the run from her abusive husband; a pocket-bike riding mysterious hero, and a pair of psychotic identical babysitter twins–Director Robert Rodriguez

Cannes Film Fest 2007–This was movie exhibition in its alternative heyday, simultaneously run-down and vividly alive. They were old houses that that were more dilapidated than existed for the people in the big city neighborhoods, or they were all-night theaters that would play 3 or 4 movies. It would be a place for the bums to go and sleep. If you‚Äôre hiding out from the law you‚Äôd go there for the night. Then, at six in the morning they wake you up and send you out, and you‚Äôd walk around for 90 minutes and come right back in again–Tarantino

‚ÄúI initially started the program for young Afro-American men, trying to provide good role models for them, good positive situations where they could grow, and exposing them to other things in the community–showing them another side of the planet, so to speak. I was just trying to put back into the community, and swimming was the vehicle that I was comfortable with–Jim Ellis

There was a time when it wasn‚Äôt politically correct to talk about men and women being different. Whereas now, especially with this film, they‚Äôre really the only dynamics there are. Politics, the sexes, even if they‚Äôre the same sex, it‚Äôs still somebody playing a male or female role. I don‚Äôt know who it was, but somebody said there are only three stories: man, woman and God‚Äîwhichever God that may be. I‚Äôm fascinated by how people stay together, why they break up, and when they choose to or not, why some people have kids. There doesn‚Äôt seem to be much else–Director Ray Lawrence.