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" I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. "
Ryan Phillippe
Being
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Studio
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" Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous! "
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Shadow
" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "
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" A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. "
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" I won't make a movie for money ever again. "
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" People are sheepish when they approach me. "
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" It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. "
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" To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. "
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" I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people. "
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" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "
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Lot
" Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect. "
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You
" Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around. "
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" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "
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Great Man
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" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "
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Children
Important
" Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. "
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Really
Enjoy
Them
" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "
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Much
Learn
More
" I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. "
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Film
Time
Something
" I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. "
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Age
Wife
Time
" LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight. "
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People
Environment
Creative
" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "
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Ideas
Want
People
" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "
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Always
Brother
Three
" But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. "
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Particularly
Around
Comfortable
" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "
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Landscape
Respond
Different
" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "
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Hire
Place
Actor
" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "
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Seen
You
Something
" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "
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Way
Break
Finding
" My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye. "
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Young
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" There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor. "
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See
Own
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" The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. "
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Mean
Just Because
" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "
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Stories
Found
Great