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" 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. "

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" I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live. "

Ryan Phillippe

Age

Wife

Time

" 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. "

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

Ryan Phillippe

Appealing

Involved

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. "

" I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues. "

Ryan Phillippe

World

Early

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People are sheepish when they approach me. "

Ryan Phillippe

Approach

People

" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "

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

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

" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "

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

Ryan Phillippe

Much

Learn

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Ryan Phillippe

Jealous

Competitive