Ryan Phillippe Quotes

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

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

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.

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

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

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.

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

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

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

The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.

I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good,

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

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

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

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

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.

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

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

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.

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

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

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

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live ... and that's something this film speaks to.

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

People are sheepish when they approach me.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.