Quotes from Keanu Reeves


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My name can't be that tough to pronounce!


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.


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.


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.


'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.


I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.


I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.


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


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


Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.


And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.


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.


I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.


Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.


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'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.


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.


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.


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.


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.