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" It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years. "

Ryan Gosling

Experience

Good

Life

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Now

Movies

" It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way. "

" I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it. "

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Just

" 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. "

" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "

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Grew

Really

" I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are. "

" It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy. "

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" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

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Older

" When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies. "

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" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "

" I'm just sort of making it up as I go along. "

" I don't believe in ghosts. "

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Ghosts

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" I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. "

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" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "

" The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it. "

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" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" 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 grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

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" I make a mean tuna fish sandwich. "