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" 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! "

Ryan Phillippe

Living

Money

Shadow

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Appealing

Involved

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Grow

Will

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" People are sheepish when they approach me. "

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Approach

People

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Jealous

Competitive

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

" 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. "

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

" There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. "

" 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

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

" I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again. "

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

" 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. "

" At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal. "

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

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

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Much

Learn

" 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. "