Ryan Phillippe Quotes
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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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.
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There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
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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.
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I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
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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.
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Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.
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I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.
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Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
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Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.
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Divorce was the darkest, saddest place I had ever been. It was a struggle - there were a good four or five months of not being able to get out of bed. It was the worst time in my life. You get through it. It's a process that's not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day.
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I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.
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But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
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The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
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I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
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Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
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I won't make a movie for money ever again.
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But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.
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You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
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Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
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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.
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I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
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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.