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" 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. "

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" I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. "

Keanu Reeves

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" You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Keanu Reeves

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" The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Keanu Reeves

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" Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it. "

Keanu Reeves

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

" 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. "

" When the people you love are gone, you're alone. "