Keanu Reeves
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.Collection: Dating
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.Collection: Amazing
It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.Collection: God
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Religion
You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Movies
When the people you love are gone, you're alone.Collection: Love
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Relationship
I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Positive
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.Collection: Love
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.Collection: God
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.
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.
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'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.
It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
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.
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.
I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
My name can't be that tough to pronounce!
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 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.
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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.
Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.