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" 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. "

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" The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. "

Keanu Reeves

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

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

" My name can't be that tough to pronounce! "

" 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. "

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

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

" I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. "

" On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones. "

" 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. "

" Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth. "

" It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun. "

" 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 think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone. "

" When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. "

" You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. "

Keanu Reeves

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" It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world. "

" I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste. "

" 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. "

" 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. "

" Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. "

" I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. "

" It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. "

" Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. "

" I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy. "

" I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie. "