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" 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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" How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. "

Keanu Reeves

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Experience

Movies

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. "

" Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic. "

" It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. "

" Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard. "

" 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. "

" On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones. "

" Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. "

" 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. "

Keanu Reeves

Cereal

Adventure

" I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. "

" How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. "

" 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. "

" I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more. "

" 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.' "

" Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. "

" I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless. "

Keanu Reeves

Sexy

I Am

" I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime. "

" I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. "

" When the people you love are gone, you're alone. "

" Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. "

" 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. "

" 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. "

" I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "