Ryan Gosling
Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.
You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think.
I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.Collection: Nice
I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.Collection: Thinking
Talking about muscles. They're like pets basically. They're not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away.Collection: Running
There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.Collection: Opportunity
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but, its not who you are.Collection: Mean
I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?Collection: Song
To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.Collection: Watches
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.Collection: Self
You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.Collection: Running
Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.Collection: Sexy
The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.Collection: Film
[Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.Collection: Thinking
I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.Collection: Selfish
It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.Collection: Self
I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.Collection: Art
I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.Collection: Character
Im glad I have an outlet. I dont think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.Collection: Thinking
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.Collection: Interesting
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.Collection: Life
You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.Collection: People
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.Collection: Directors
A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.Collection: Journey
I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.Collection: Ideas
It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.Collection: Daughter
I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do.Collection: Life
I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with [...] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.Collection: Notebook
I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.Collection: Moving
Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.Collection: Love Is
I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.Collection: Movie Love
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.Collection: Strong
I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.Collection: Thinking
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.Collection: Real
It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.Collection: Hate
I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.Collection: American Politics
I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.Collection: Growing Up
I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.Collection: Life
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.Collection: Character
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don’t think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It’s an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It’s this thing that’s looming, and you can control it.Collection: Fun
I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.Collection: Strong
I started reading all these men’s magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you’re supposed to wear, what you’re supposed to have, things you’re supposed to say, and all the exercises you’re supposed to do.Collection: Reading