Quotes from Keanu Reeves

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

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.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

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.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

'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.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

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.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can't help it. I'm just a cliché of myself.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I've ever had.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality.

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.