Ryan Phillippe

“There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.”

“I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.”

“A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.”

“I won't make a movie for money ever again.”

“I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.”

“My sisters are my favorite people on earth.”

“I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.”

“Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.”

“People are sheepish when they approach me.”

“Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.”

“At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.”

“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.”

“My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.”

“A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.”

“I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.”

“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.”

“I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.”

“But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.”