“Shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do.”
Jonathan Demme

“In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.”
Randal Kleiser

“- Selma: Isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?
- Bill Houston: Why?
- Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova
David Morse - Bill Houston

“In Jailhouse Rock he was everything rockabilly's about. I mean, he is rockabilly. Mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he couldn't give a fuck about nothing except rockin' and rollin', living fast, dying young and leaving a good-looking corpse.”

Christian Slater - Clarence Worley

“I think rock'nroll is great for this generation. I think it gives a happy feeling to music. We don't dress like they did back in the 40s. Well, this is the same thing.”
Frankie Avalon