On the stories they loved as teenagers and how they related to fantasy for Beowulf:

Winstone: For me, growing up in the 60's, I was born in '57 so it wasn't so much books for me. It was cinema at the time, like Jason and the Argonauts, and films like A Man for all Seasons or The Lion in Winter. I love history. I really got history in that way, and stories, so my books were kind of cinema. Cinema, to me, was great. Films like Zulu so I think one of the greatest films ever made was A Man for all Seasons. It's not much action. It's great scripts and great work, that's when great films can be books for kids that don't read that much. I wasn't a great reader as a kid. My stories were through cinema really.

Jolie: Treasure Island. I'm sitting here trying to think of some brilliant answer like everybody else has, but I really don't have one. I loved Treasure Island. When it comes to film I love Lawrence of Arabia. I love The Traveler, I loved reading Winston Churchill's works, and I loved his stories of his early life and his adventures. I loved the history in that, so those are mine.

Hopkins: Well, very early when I was 12 years of age it was Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, which was a great Victorian novel of the time. It was kind of legend and fable, just a beautifully written novel. When we were doing the movie, this one, I thought, ‘What a great power this technique of making a movie has for achieving a level - a visual of what's going to come.’ For example, I mentioned some of the great Shakespeare's, I know that makes me pretty old at times, but I know that people are scared stiff of Shakespeare. I'm not put off by the accent and the meaning or all of that, but it would be interesting to take some of those great plays like Lear which were fables and epics of their own kind, Macbeth. You can do limitless things with those. I've got an idea that they could be very powerful in this kind of medium. I think there are all kinds of possibilities.

Malkovich: I remember quite a few things that I read when I was very young. Things like Peter Pan, or Our Town but for some reason I can't remember that time so well, so I couldn't say more.

Angelina Jolie on the most challenging aspect of Beowulf:

Jolie: Bob will make you do weird things. I was on - I think for swimming we had to think of something I could be attached to, and my waist was attached. My waist was attached--I had a harness, and had something with wheels. It was day one, I had to suddenly swim, and we were trying to think of what that would be in this new way. I was swimming with my upper body, being rolled around Crispin [Glover], and trying to pretend I was swimming. With flying, we hooked me up with wires and flew around. I had something where I was hooked up and being moved.

Jolie on the notion that A Mighty Heart was a disappointing film for some people:

Jolie: Of course not, it's not a disappointment at all to me. It's a film that I feel strongly about, Mariane [Pearl] feel's strongly about, Daniel's [Pearl] parents feel strongly about, and the people that see it appreciate it. I don't see why in any way, other than box office dollars, which should mean very little to art.

Jolie on whether she's taking a break:

Jolie: I have one more month on The Changeling and then I'm not doing anything.

On whether she'll be spending Christmas in the U.S.:

Jolie: I don't know, we are talking about maybe New Orleans. Brad [Pitt], we both have some work to do there. We don't know, we're leaving it open still... There is a lot of traveling I want to do, continue to work with this education program we started, refugees, and many things. Travel when I can.