And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. - Keanu Reeves
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. - Keanu Reeves
Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell. - Keanu Reeves
I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually. - Keanu Reeves
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material. - Keanu Reeves
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more. - Keanu Reeves
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. - Keanu Reeves
I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera. - Keanu Reeves
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. - Keanu Reeves
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.' - 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
'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. - Keanu Reeves
You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto. - Keanu Reeves
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. - Keanu Reeves
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved. - Ian McKellen
Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like. - Ian McKellen
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play. - Ian McKellen
I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them. - Ian McKellen
I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work. - Ian McKellen
If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. - Ian McKellen
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