Ryan Phillippe Quotes - Page 2

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

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.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

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.

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

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

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

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.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

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.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

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.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

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.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.