Audie Quotes

"I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people`s participation and young faces in the audience. Then you arrive in the States and it is $150 to go to an opera. Ridiculous. We have so much young talent on the streets, but because everything is commercial they finally drift away from their dream of their life." - The Daily Telegraph, 09/02/2004

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there`s a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That`s how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her reading was riveting. After sharing her excellent poetry, she engaged in a very interesting talk-story session with the audience, and then signed books and met audience members one-on-one. It was such a successful event that we knew we wanted to have her back again.