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" Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. "
Keanu Reeves
Writing
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" 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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" I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. "
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" You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. "
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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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" 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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" The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. "
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" It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you. "
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" I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. "
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" Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. "
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" My name can't be that tough to pronounce! "
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" I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit. "
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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. "
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" I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. "
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" 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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Sometimes
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" 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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" I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. "
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" I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance. "
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" The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. "
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" I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues. "
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" I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste. "
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" It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth. "
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" I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone. "
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" Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard. "
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" Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. "
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