The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

“I kept thinking, ‘What the hell am I doing here?' I’m not an actress. There’s the director telling me, ‘Act like Anne’s a long-lost friend,’ and next thing I know, she and Kate are going at it. For hours. Why would anybody do this?”

--Boston Red Sox wife Shonda Shilling jokes to the Herald that her 14-hour stint as an all-star extra in the made-in-Boston flick "Bride Wars" with star Anne Hathaway was anything but glamorous.

"It's kind of Hitchcocky, movie, orchestral, Mellotron stuff. It's instrumental music. No songs. It's interesting."

--Arcade Fire's Win Butler says that his band scored the music in the made-in-Boston horror film "The Box," starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden and directed by "Donnie Darko" filmmaker Richard Kelly slotted for release Nov. 6.

"No, nothing - except maybe a bad Bronx accent. When I auditioned people for "Madso's War" (also known as "War of '04"), I had them do it with and without the accent because I felt maybe they could learn it."

--Casting director Sheila Jaffe tells the Boston Globe that there isn't anything worse than a bad Boston accent in TV or film ... except for a bad Bronx accent. Jaffe is teaching a day-long master class for experienced Boston actors at the InterContinental Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11.

“When I first heard that Casey Affleck was going to be Patrick Kenzie in 'Gone, Baby, Gone' I went, ‘Huh?' But he was great. I've had such good luck with other people doing that, there's just no reason for me to delve into those waters.”

--"Mystic River" and "Gone Baby Gone" author Dennis Lehane spills to Canada's Globe and Mail while promoting his latest, "The Given Day."

"Our mission is to promote imagination and possibility, and we’re proud to complement this vision with a progressive, environmentally friendly movie studio."

--Plymouth Rock Studios founder David Kirkpatrick says the approved $500 million multi-use film studio project plans to be a movie-industry leader in green practices.

"Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck gave birth to a healthy baby girl."

--A rep for Garner tells People.com that Cambridge homeboy Ben Affleck and wife delivered their second daughter on Tuesday, Jan. 6.