Speed Racer Quotes:

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

- Emile Hirsch

topic: Self, Imagination, Acting, Speed Racer, Racers

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

- Emile Hirsch

topic: Morning, Kids, Cereal, Speed Racer, Racers

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

- Emile Hirsch

source: "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". The Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

topic: Color, Focus, Done, Speed Racer, Retro

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.

- Stephanie Zacharek

source: "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

topic: Fun, Excess, Littles, Speed Racer, Crass

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

- Emile Hirsch

topic: Grateful, Thinking, Alaska, Speed Racer, Racers