Gillian Armstrong's new, magical version expresses beautifully the enchanting years of adolescence, that crucial, often painful era between girlhood and womanhood. This handsomely produced period piece is one of the most emotionally effective and most intelligent big-screen presentations to have come out of Hollywood in years. Winona Ryder steps honorably into the role that Katharine Hepburn made her own in the RKO l933 version.

“It was first and foremost entertaining. The story had a lot of comedy and action, but above all it had heart. The element of fantasy is shared by everyone, young as well as older viewers”–Schwarzenegger.

“If you grew up in the Bay Area, you had this childhood fear that you kind of insinuated yourself into it. What if the school bus is our bus What if the killer showed up in our neighborhood You create even more drama about it when you're a kid, because that is what kids do. I grew up in Marin and Now I know the geography of where the crime took place, but when you're in grade school, children don't think about that. They think, 'He's going to show up at our school'”–Director David Fincher

I tend to be attracted to stories that are about deception, like “Shattered Glass.” Or maybe I'm just attracted to characters that have that split down the middle-‚Äîwho are able to compartmentalize, to live one kind of life on the outside, and a very different interior life. It makes for more interesting stories–director Billy Ray

In this intimate interview, Anthony Hopkins talks about playing the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Oscar, making Howards End, working with Coppola on Bram Stoker's Dracula, and other matters.