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" I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that. "
Emile Hirsch
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" If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine. "
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" I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities. "
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" 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. "
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" I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. "
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" Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. "
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" I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. "
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" Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya! "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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