Keanu Reeves

“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.”

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”

“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've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'”

“Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.”

“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.”

“Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.”

“I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.”

“When the people you love are gone, you're alone.”

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

“I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.”

“I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.”