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" I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie. "
Keanu Reeves
Want
Kung Fu
Make
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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. "
Keanu Reeves
World
Self
Journey
" I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. "
Keanu Reeves
You
Smart
People
" I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. "
Keanu Reeves
Nightmares
Used
Tombstone
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Always
Hollywood
Quality
" I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. "
Keanu Reeves
Been
Trying
Partner
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Story
Looking
Waiting
" I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy. "
Keanu Reeves
Need
Therapy
Think
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Audience
Think
Talking
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
World
Performance
Moving
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Talk
Movies
Film
" I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. "
Keanu Reeves
Think
Interaction
Kind
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Spiritual
Direction
Energy
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Think
Nostalgia
Choice
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Beautiful
Work
Dream
" People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot. "
Keanu Reeves
Hot
Saying
People
" Grief changes shape, but it never ends. "
Keanu Reeves
Shape
Sympathy
Never
" I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water. "
Keanu Reeves
Out
Just
Up
" I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. "
Keanu Reeves
Believe
Love
Problems
" '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. "
Keanu Reeves
Running
Point
Green
" How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. "
Keanu Reeves
Wonder
Say
Confront
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Health
Life
Good
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
Moment
Art
Celebrate
" 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
Knowledge
Truth
Truth Is
" My name can't be that tough to pronounce! "
Keanu Reeves
Tough
Name
Pronounce
" I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. "
Keanu Reeves
Sexy
Am
I Am
" I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change. "
Keanu Reeves
Feel
Sometimes
Change
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
You
Dance
Ready
" Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard. "
Keanu Reeves
Believe
Devil
God
" I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit. "
Keanu Reeves
Inside
Mickey Mouse
Know
" 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. "
Keanu Reeves
You
Live
Sometimes