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Bob Hoskin’s Interview with The Guardian 2007

“The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. It was a fuckin’ nightmare. The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin’ nightmare. Fuckin’ idiots.“ 

Bob Hoskins Q & A with The Guardian 2011

Whats the worst job you’ve ever done?

Super Mario Bros.

What’s been your biggest disappointment?

Super Mario Bros

If you could edit you past, what would you change?

I wouldn’t do Super Mario Bros.

John Leguizamo remembers Super Mario Bros. on it’s 20th Anniversary

“On the disco scene they hired a whole bunch of strippers from Wilmington to be in the scene and they were too scantily clad cause this was a children’s video game and that was conflicting for everybody. It was not an easy shoot because the ladies wanted to reveal everything and they couldn’t. I mean, we didn’t mind but it wasn’t appropriate for the PG rating we were looking for.”

Dennis Hopper on Conan O’Brian in 2008

“ I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time — he’s now 18 — he said, ‘Dad, I think you’re probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?’ and I said, ‘Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,’ and he said, ‘Dad, I don’t need shoes that badly.”

Rocky Morton (Director), 2016 Interview

the remote, secluded and little known rice terraces of yuanyang county in china’s yunnan province were built by the hani people along the contours of ailao mountain range five hundred years ago. during the early spring season, the terraces, once planted, are irrigated with spring water from the forest above, reflecting sunlight to create these stain glass like landscapes

• No neck to bite into

• Not polite enough to invite anyone inside

• Effectively immortal