The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"All my friends from Boston are either dead or in jail. The stuff they did, you don't get out of jail."

--Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg, seen in the sneak peek photo above from the made-in-Lowell flick "The Fighter," talks about his rough-trade past and reveals that he's planning to make a movie on the HBO series "Entourage."

"It was a bigger action thriller than I had ever been a part of and we shot in Boston and I got to employ a Southie accent. To prepare I hung out mostly with the teamsters and some of those accents were fantastic."

--Caterina Scorsone, who snagged the role of Melissa Conway with Mel Gibson in the made-in-Boston thriller "Edge of Darkness," says it was difficult to master a Southie accent in the film slotted for release in January 29, 2010.

"She was nice and really quiet. She asked me about the finals clubs at Harvard."

--Emma Watson, the British actress known as Hermione Granger from the "Harry Potter" franchise and frosh at Brown University, impressed Harvard student Antonia N. Silvera during a visit to the Hasty Pudding on Saturday, Dec. 5.

"We're a discovery festival, but we're not just about the discovery of films. We're about the discovery of talent."

--Sundance Film Festival director John Cooper unveils the list of the 13 films screening out of the Utah fest's competition, including the made-in-Boston downsizing drama "The Company Men" starring Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello and Kevin Costner. Sundance is slotted to expand this year to include major markets across the country including an event planned for Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 28.