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" A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation. "
Family
Way
Speed
" Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. "
Ambition
Time
New
" Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. "
CNN
Bell
Heart
" Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. "
Good
Everything
Days
" How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain? "
Little
Curtain
Behind
" I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. "
Picture
Quality
Maybe
" I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.' "
Slogan
Boy
Like
" If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine. "
Actor
Where
Want
" I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. "
Fall
Doing
Pool
" I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. "
Rocks
Work
Through
" I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that. "
I Can
Adventure
Like
" I'm a very, very conservative driver. "
Conservative
Driver
Very
" I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. "
Want
Ball
Know
" I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like. "
Away
Staying
Trying
" In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese. "
Like
Bikes
Chinese
" I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater. "
Away
Remember
Memorable
" I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day. "
I Can
Wild
Day
" It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down. "
Throw
Tie
You
" I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities. "
Ideas
Sometimes
Exceed
" I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million. "
Think
Green
Kind
" I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me. "
Grateful
Mountains
Day
" Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. "
Feel
Life
Courage
" On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. "
Imagination
Life
Self
" The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was. "
Once
Projects
Limitations
" There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money. "
Heart
Money
Fighting
" There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians. "
About
Just
Kind
" The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning. "
Learning
You
Good
" Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know. "
Morning
Always
Kid
" We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining. "
Really
Cool
Did
" When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable. "
Pillow
Me
Girl
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