Ryan Gosling

“You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films.”

“When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.”

“I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater.”

“If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.”

“You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.”

“I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.”

“What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny.”

“Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just 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.”

“I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.”

“I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.”

“I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.”

“Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.”

“I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.”

“When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.”

“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.”

“גוסלינג הוא אחד מאותם שחקנים שנאמנים קודם כל לעצמם – אופיו של הסרט והאתגר שהתפקיד מציב בפניו, הם אלה שמושכים אותו להופיע באותו סרט, בין שמדובר בסרט עצמאי או בהפקה עתירת תקציב.”

“לא ביימתי מעולם וזה תהליך ארוך ומורכב שאני עוד לפניו.”

“תמיד רציתי לעשות סרט מדע בדיוני, זה ז'אנר מרגש. אתה מסוגל לדבר על נושאים מאוד רלוונטיים אבל נותן להם מרחק קולנועי שמאפשר לך לחוות אותם ברמה נפשית אחרת, ולא לראות אותם בפילטר של זמננו.”

“יש כל הזמן נשים סביבי. גדלתי עם אמי ואחותי ותמיד היינו רק שלושתנו מאז אני מוקף בחברה נשית. גם הצוות שמנהל אותי הוא על טהרת הנשים – הסוכנת האישית, המנהלת, אשת יחסי הציבור שלי. אני אפילו גר עם אחותי. אני זקוק להן שיהיו בסביבתי. הן הכי טובות שיש.”

“יש באפריקה משהו ממכר וקסום. האנרגיה של האנשים היא מדהימה. יש שם טוהר וטוב לב. קשה שלא לשאוב השראה מהרוח של אפריקה.”