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" It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun. "
Keanu Reeves
Dangerous
Love
Fun
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" I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.' "
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" On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones. "
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" I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. "
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" I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit. "
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" 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. "
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Looking
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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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" The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. "
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Attention
" Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. "
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Intention
Kind
" Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth. "
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Negative
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" Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic. "
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Investment
Fake
Pretend
" 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. "
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Relationship
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" 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. "
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Health
Life
Good
" Grief changes shape, but it never ends. "
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Shape
Sympathy
Never
" I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. "
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Smart
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" Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell. "
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Find
Story
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" 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
" 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. "
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Audience
Think
Talking
" 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. "
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Talk
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Film
" 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. "
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Saying
People
" I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. "
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Am
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" How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. "
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Wonder
Say
Confront
" Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. "
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Mortality
Different
Very
" I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. "
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Believe
Love
Problems
" 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. "
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You
Television
Interview
" 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. "
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Reading
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Great
" I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. "
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Smart
People
" But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal. "
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More
Cereal
Adventure
" 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. "
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You
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Sometimes
" I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change. "
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" Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. "
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Heart
Someone
Beat