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" There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to. "
Ryan Phillippe
You
Care
Challenges
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" The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me. "
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You
Something
" To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me. "
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Appealing
Me
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" 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. "
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" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "
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Found
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" To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. "
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Story
Boy
" Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. "
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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 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. "
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Grow
Me
Will
" 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. "
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Environment
Creative
" Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood. "
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Way
Break
Finding
" I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. "
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Always
Brother
Three
" 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. "
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Understand
Mean
Just Because
" 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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Nice
You
Want
" 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. "
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Movies
Opportunity
Career
" But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. "
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Particularly
Around
Comfortable
" 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. "
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Talk
Want
Leave
" I won't make a movie for money ever again. "
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Movie
Make
Again
" But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas. "
Ryan Phillippe
Ideas
Want
People
" 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. "
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Best
Look
Loved
" I learn so much more in an ensemble movie. "
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Much
Learn
More
" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "
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Happy
Great Man
Great
" I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker. "
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Being
Interested
Studio
" 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. "
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Business
Find
You
" 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. "
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Age
Wife
Time
" 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! "
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Living
Money
Shadow
" I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. "
Ryan Phillippe
Proud
Want
I Am
" What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive. "
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Jealous
Competitive
More
" My sisters are my favorite people on earth. "
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People
Favorite
Favorite People
" You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money. "
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Social
Movies
Lot