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" And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. "

" Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture. "

" Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. "

" Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic. "

" But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal. "

" But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. "

" But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer. "

" Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. "

" Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell. "

" Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. "

" Grief changes shape, but it never ends. "

" Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. "

" How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. "

" How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. "

" I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. "

" I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually. "

" I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. "

" I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories. "

" I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. "

" I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. "

" I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. "

" I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more. "

" I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water. "

" I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. "

" I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. "

" I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. "

" I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change. "

" I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. "

" I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit. "

" I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance. "

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