Keanu Reeves
I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.
I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.
I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.
But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.
'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 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.
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
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 think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.
Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.Collection: Simple
Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.Collection: Teacher
Life is good when you have a good sandwich.Collection: Life Is Good
Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.Collection: Art
You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.Collection: Wake Up
The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've created your world, with actions of your body, speech and mind. When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. It is incredibly empowering to know that your future is in your hands.Collection: Karma
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.Collection: Strong
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.Collection: Death
We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.Collection: Who We Are
I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.Collection: Children
You need to be happy to live, I don't.Collection: Needs
In my quiet, I was working something out.Collection: Silence
All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.Collection: Dream
And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day.Collection: Easy
Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.Collection: Fashion
Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.Collection: Live Your Life
I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.Collection: Virgos
A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.Collection: Kids
You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move... you can't breathe... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.Collection: Moving
I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.Collection: Opportunity
Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.Collection: Art
I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.Collection: Sight
I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.Collection: Goes On
So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.Collection: Hate
One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.Collection: Emotional
The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.Collection: Inspiration
There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.Collection: Writing
I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.Collection: Spiritual
Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.Collection: Thinking
It's hard to act in the morning. The muse isn't even awake.Collection: Morning
Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.Collection: Men
I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.Collection: Latin
It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's important? Dealing with the moment of a different kind of feeling for mortality. Shifting of the body. Contextualizing or reevaluating behaviors and values. All those kinds of things.Collection: Reflection
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].Collection: Digital
The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.Collection: Feelings
Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.Collection: Issues