New York Magazine's Vulture entertainment blog had a great bunch of quotes  and stories yesterday. My favorite quote is from Takashi Miike, a director who makes American torture porn look like an episode of Little House on the Prarie.

"Audiences in Japan don't really want too much stimulus, they don't want too much danger. They don't want to see a horror film that ruins the rest of their lives. They don't want to see a scene so horrific that they can't go on with their lives — so those conditions are not very desirable for me." —Takashi Miike

From the New York Daily News via Vulture.

Vulture also had a great little anecdote about an audience participation routine gone awry at a performance of Will Ferrell's broadway show.