The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"It was incredibly beneficial to the film. Our movie needed the scope the size of the Worcester Art Museum and we had a relatively modest budget (about $20 million), so it gave the film a look, a richness that we otherwise wouldn't have gotten."

--Producer Rob Paris says he got more bang for his buck filming scenes for his yet-to-be-released "The Maiden Heist" at the Worcester Art Museum.

"It's simple: I just respond to the story. I have since I first read it. That fact that it's set in Boston may be part of that, but I'm not out there looking to document Boston. I want to tell good stories."

--Ben Affleck, cover boy of the April issue of Esquire Magazine, insists that he's not worried about being pigeonholed as a Boston-only director.

“They said they liked our place because we had a really nice front door."

--Lauren Mauriello, who apparently has a nice brownstone on Broadway in South Boston, spills that she was contacted by a scout from Columbia Pictures to film at her home for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson and Paul Rudd flick tentatively titled "How Do You Know?"

"It's a great uplift in terms of spirits. It's been a long winter."

--Bob Coviello, owner of Main Street Antiques and member of the Essex Merchant group, says he's psyched that Essex selectmen entered into an agreement Monday night with Lakefront Productions Inc. to film a feature movie starring Adam Sandler at the town's Centennial Grove this summer.

--Photo courtesy Yari Film Group