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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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" I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. "

Ryan Phillippe

Progress

Sadness

Father

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ryan Phillippe

Grow

Will

" I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. "

" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "

" A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing. "

" To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me. "

Ryan Phillippe

Appealing

Involved

" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "

" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. "

" Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them. "

" I won't make a movie for money ever again. "

" What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive. "

Ryan Phillippe

Jealous

Competitive

" 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. "

" People are sheepish when they approach me. "

Ryan Phillippe

Approach

People

" But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. "

" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "

" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "

" 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. "

" I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. "

" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "

" 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! "

" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "

Ryan Phillippe

Much

Learn

" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "

" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "

" I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30. "

" I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. "