Allison Janney, Ellen Page, and J.K. Simmons in Juno Doane Gregory/Courtesy of Fox Searchlight

Jason Bateman: Juno, for as liberal and independent as she is — and I am not advocating adoption or abortion or anything — but she ultimately makes an independent decision by virtue of the upbringing that she has. She is in the clinic, and it just doesn't feel right for her. And so she ends up making a decision that is her own individual decision, and she is going to have this baby to term and give it up for adoption. I would think that is what any parent would want their child to do — which is to make a decision that is based on an upbringing of intelligence, whether that means abortion or adoption. Whatever it is, she made her own decision.

ON THE MUSIC

"We both have shiny happy fits of rage
You want more fans, I want more stage
I don't see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you"
— THE MOLDY PEACHES, "ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU"

Jason Reitman: Ellen Page was in my office. And I was like: "Hey, who do you think that Juno listens to?" And she goes: "Oh, the Moldy Peaches." And she jumped onto my computer and started downloading songs and showed me that song Anyone Else But You that closes the film. And then I said: "We have got to end the movie with this." And I called Diablo, and I sent her the song, and she loved it. And then I got in contact with the lead singer of the Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, and … said: "Do you have any other material?" and she sent me six CDs with like 120 songs. And then, otherwise, it was songs from Diablo and my iTunes collections.

Ellen Page: It is awesome for me to sit in a theater and listen to one of my favorite songs. And the Cat Power cover of "Sea of Love" is one of my favorite songs, and Patti Smith is, like, my icon. I am very passionate about music, and I get very emotionally connected to it.

ON PARENTING

"Well, I thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when." — Mac MacGuff

Ellen on being pregnant: It was funny going through that process. It is going to be interesting if I am pregnant some time — which would be great. I would love to have a child. Not now. It will be interesting because I have worn the belly and felt the awkwardness of that. What was great was that I got to go home and take it off because there [were] moments of, like, "Get this off me! Get this off me! Get this off me! Get this off me!"

Jason Bateman on Jennifer Garner: Jennifer says that it helped in that she definitely identified with a woman really, really wanting a child because she really enjoys the one that she's got. So it was easy for her to tap into that.

J.K. Simmons on kids growing up now: I have an eight-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl … It is horrifying at how — at age six — preadolescent her mannerisms and behavior are. And that is not because she is precocious. It is the same way with all her little friends. It is partly human biology, I guess, but it really exacerbated by the world in which we live and the media. I am very boringly proto-typical in that way. I am terrified of all that … When the eight-year-old boy started showing interest in his nether regions, I thought: "Yeah. That's cool!" and then when she did, I just went: "Oh, no. Stop."