Rob McElhenney says the two-against-one rule on Always Sunny has saved them years of emotional arguments because production is too expensive to negotiate every single decision "early on we realized let’s just institute a rule of two against one. And it’s really really and I know it sounds silly and simple but it has been profound" "The assumption is do you trust me? Yes. Do I trust you? Yes. And the three of us trust each other and we trust our taste. So therefore if two of us feel strongly about something then the other one has to capitulate no matter what no questions asked" "They get a chance to plead their case and we all have to remain open-minded. But if the two of us still or two of them say nope this is the way we’re going you move on quickly" "And it actually diffuses so many problems so quickly because you don’t have time as you all know you work in production it’s so expensive to run these shows you just don’t have time to negotiate every single thing and you got to move fast and that has saved us I mean that has saved us hours I would actually say that that saved years of our lives emotionally"

Kevin Costner says his parents parked a motor home on the Dances with Wolves set, watched him direct the whole movie, then bought a house there "They came to every little game." "She goes, we have a motor home." "we're gonna be there in these lawn chairs" "I told them I don't make sequels, but they said, well, we bought a house." He's a first-time director running a 1990 western with a giant crew, and his mom is up on the hill waving at him every morning. He tried to keep them away and lost that one fast. Seven Oscars later the movie never got a sequel, so the house was for nothing. ft: @JimmyKimmelLive Jimmy Kimmel Live on youtube

Christopher Lloyd says the jacket he wore as Jim on Taxi came out of a bush, and the show liked his audition outfit so much it became the costume "he found that jacket in a bush." "I wore it for my audition for Taxi." "they said, wear that to rehearsal Monday." "So that jacket is out there somewhere." Reverend Jim might be the best-dressed burnout in TV history, and none of it came from wardrobe. Lloyd walked in wearing a friend's yard find, holey jeans and his ex-father-in-law's sneakers, and the producers knew the guy when they saw him. Then the studio lost the jacket between seasons. ft: @JimmyKimmelLive Jimmy Kimmel Live on youtube

Woody Harrelson says he hustled Wesley Snipes for real on the White Men Can't Jump set, faking that he couldn't dunk and then betting him $1,000 "In reality, I couldn't stuff it, right?" "She says, Woody, have you stretched?" "oh, man, I just can't." "why don't we bet $1,000, right?" That's the plot of the movie, played out for real between takes. Billy Hoyle wins by letting guys think the goofy white kid can't play, and Woody ran the exact same hustle on his own costar. All it took was a crew member telling him to stretch first.

Kevin Bacon says Jack Nicholson gave the full "You can't handle the truth" speech all day long, even when the camera was only on the other actors "Rob Reiner started with Jack's coverage." "And Jack is either over his shoulder or off camera for the rest of the day" "And he just kept doing that speech again and again and again" "But he's still just acting his ass off for everybody's coverage." Nicholson had his close-ups done by lunch. Every take after that was for the other actors, and he kept giving them the real thing in a sweaty Marine uniform. Those reaction shots in A Few Good Men land because he never let up off camera. ft: @sxsw SXSW on youtube

Patrick Stewart says Rod Steiger blew up at the crew on his first movie so the unknown kid next to him would get to film his own close-up "Okay, that's all we need of you, Bill. You can go to lunch now." "He said, what about Patrick?" "We'll have somebody read in for you and it'll all be fine." "And he said, the camera photographs thoughts." Steiger was done for the day and could have walked off to lunch. He stayed in that car and fought for an actor nobody knew yet. Then he said sorry and pulled him into his trailer for an acting lesson. Years later Stewart was the guy in the captain's chair, and it sounds like he never forgot who showed him how to lead a set.

Michael Keaton jokes that Tim Burton has finished maybe seven or eight full sentences in his life, because his mind runs way ahead of his mouth "My joke about Tim is, I don't really know how old Tim is," "I would doubt that he's ever completed more than seven or eight totally declarative sentences" "And his mind is so creative." "It's really hard for him." Keaton has done Batman, Batman Returns and both Beetlejuice movies with the guy, so he has earned the joke. Burton is better at showing you a scene than explaining it. Thirty years in, Keaton says he finally speaks the language. ft: @joshuahorowitz Happy Sad Confused on youtube

Hot take: the best acting in movies and TV right now is coming from people over 60, and it's not close. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father at 83. Harrison Ford showed up on Shrinking and made a sitcom about therapists feel like it had been waiting for him the whole time. The younger guys are talented. Plenty of them are great. The difference is the older ones have quit trying to be liked. They don't fight for the close-up. They let a pause sit there and do the work. Watch the last ten minutes of The Father and tell me which actor under 40 would trust the silence that much. So who's your pick for the best performance by an actor over 60 in the last ten years? You can't say Hopkins. I already took him.

Keanu Reeves says his manager told him to change his name the day he drove into LA at 20, so for a while he was Casey Reeves "My manager said, we want to change your name." "So then I became Casey Reeves." "Casey Reeves and I would be like I wouldn't even answer." "I was like, I'm not doing this." He drove down from Toronto with an agent and a TV movie behind him, and the first note Hollywood gave him was his own name. He tried the new one and couldn't even turn around when a casting room called it. Keanu sounded odd to them, and now it's the one name nobody forgets. Picture a poster for John Wick starring Casey Reeves. ft: @newheightshow New Heights on youtube

Elizabeth Holmes let a camera crew into her house 34 days before she reported to prison. She and her partner Billy Evans invited Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to film everything. Three years later, A24 is putting it in theaters as You Can See Everything. That's the wild part to me. Most people facing prison would want privacy. She wanted an audience. And Amanda Seyfried already played her in The Dropout, so now we get to put the performance next to the real thing.

John Goodman says Roseanne stood out because the hot shows at the time were wealth porn and they were sober reality "at the time, uh, the hot shows in television were all like, uh, wealth porn, like Dynasty, Dallas, stuff like that. And we, we were sober reality" "Andy Rose said something early on that just because we’re poor doesn’t make us stupid. And the reason that family stayed together was because of laughter and obvious love. And I think that showed on the screen um in a real way" "I did it to put living out of a suitcase, but but the uh yeah, the pilot was had a lot of potential. Uh I hit it off with Rose immediately. It to the point where and not in an arrogant way. I just knew when I left I had the job" "Just week after week, you know, you got a steady gig and so goddamn lucky to have it"