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. - Keanu Reeves
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. - Keanu Reeves
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. - Keanu Reeves
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay. - Ian McKellen
I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else. - Ian McKellen
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star. - Ian McKellen
I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery. - Ian McKellen
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them. - Ian McKellen
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison? - Ian McKellen
In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers. - Ian McKellen
In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself. - Ian McKellen
In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard. - Ian McKellen
In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. - Ian McKellen
Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job. - Ian McKellen
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact. - Ian McKellen
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man. - Ian McKellen
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' - Ian McKellen
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. - Ian McKellen
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