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. – Keanu Reeves
I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people. – 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
I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues. – 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’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. – 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
Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. – Keanu Reeves
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth. – 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
Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard. – Keanu Reeves
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. – Keanu Reeves
But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. – 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 have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material. – Keanu Reeves
I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change. – Keanu Reeves
People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot. – Keanu Reeves
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. – Keanu Reeves
But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer. – Keanu Reeves