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" I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me. "

Ryan Gosling

My Life

Life

Reality

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" I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me. "

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

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" I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. "

" I was highly influenced by violence. "

" I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies. "

" If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope. "

" I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way. "

" Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. "

" If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

" Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know? "

" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "

" I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't. "

" I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl. "

" I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it. "

" Most movies, you have to try and forget you're making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it's everywhere. "

" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "

" When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher. "

" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "

" People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down. "

" I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good. "

" It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in. "

" I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie. "

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