The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"If I was doing [the movie] now, knowing it was going to be this audience, I think I probably would have done it differently. It’s a small story. It’s an intimate story and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing.”

--British actor turned movie vampire Robert Pattinson convinces thousands of screaming fans at Square One Mall in Saugus that his undead turn as Edward Cullen in "Twilight" was a warm-hearted effort.

"I do epic. I'm comfortable in the epic arena. Even my private eye novels have a kind of epic feel to them."

--"Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone" author Dennis Lehane tells the Miami Herald while promoting his latest, "The Given Day." Meawhile, reports surfaced this week that the acclaimed author's 19th Century Victorian home on Ivory Street in West Roxbury is currently for sale.

"My heart pounds when I think about the red carpet. But I still wear those dumb shoes. I carry my Boston bag with pride."

--Gillian Jacobs spills to the New York Post about a bag she snagged while filming an acting gig as Cameron Diaz's babysitter in the made-in-Boston flick "The Box."

"People don't actually live their lives, but they send surrogate robots to go do everything for them — their work, their relationships, everything. They just sit at home and experience it in a chair. So, you have all the sensation of a life, but you don't physically live it. It's interesting, because men can be women, women can be men, and ugly people can be beautiful."

--Elizabeth Banks, producer of the Boston-shot, sci-fi film "The Surrogates," gives the lowdown to MTV.com about her behind-the-scenes take on futuristic robots and Bruce Willis.