Quotes from Keanu Reeves

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

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.'

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.

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

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.

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.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

My name can't be that tough to pronounce!

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

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.

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.