“I’m like, ‘O.K., great, great, great.’ And I hung up the phone. And I’m like, ‘That sounds like a dumb idea.’ ” — Michael Bay should have stuck to his gut instincts. Instead, he recalls his thoughts immediately after getting off the phone with Steven Spielberg and hearing the Academy Award-winning director’s “Transformers” pitch (Spielberg is the executive producer). Obviously, it all turned out a little bit different. [New York Times]
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