- If you’re speaking about going from “The Matrix” to this film, “Something’s Gotta Give,” I would speak about it going from kind of a formalism of “The Matrix” to the naturalism of this piece. For me, trying to do different kinds of roles, it was a wonderful opportunity, really, just to do something different. 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 was looking for a job - you laugh, but it’s true - and I read the script. It was a beautiful script and then I went in to meet on it, and I auditioned for the role.
- Some people speak of this film as being age-oriented, but I would say that it’s ageless-oriented, personally. I think that it’s about taking a risk, opening up and somehow it seems so terrifying to open oneself up to another. I think that we see these two beautiful, brave people in this film, Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, just kind of open up to each other. We get to enjoy it and see it on screen.
- Behaved? “How are you behaving today, Jack?” “’Well, Keanu, however I want.” [Laughter] That was a good lesson to learn. They’re both professionally and personally gracious and wonderful people and unique in terms of speaking of differences, I think that I’ll speak about what’s the same. There’s not beating [around the bush]. It’s just cutting to the chase. They’re consummate professionals, incredibly awesome at what they do and any moment that I got to share with them, I felt lucky to be there because they were just great people and really talented artists.
- How many years? Eight years? Good God, maybe he and I can go to the hotel bar and reminisce about being in trilogies. “Oh my God, can you believe?” “I know, it’s mad, isn’t it? We’re so lucky it’s mad.”
- His relationship to God. I guess that it’s ultimately his relationship to the world. It’s a guy who’s got anger and ambivalence. There’s a line in it, “God has a plan for all of us, some people like it, some people don’t.” That’s kind of a Constantinian take on it. Some people like it and John Constantine doesn’t like it, but he likes it.
- “The fight that was all of the Smiths was a lot of moves. I got to work with twelve of the stuntmen and so for three weeks we just did that fight. And the other thing was just trying to learn the weapons, there was a lot of different weapons, the sais, the swords, the sticks.”
- “It was just a lot of fun, really great,”
- “What is the Matrix?”
- “mirror that is an archetype of our own time and our own life.”
- “There were no paranormal events that took place on the film that I know of. Thank God!”
- “If it doesn’t have that element to it, it doesn’t really attract me.”
- “Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it’s still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.
- 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.
- I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
- It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
- 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.
- The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
- 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.
- 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.
- When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
- 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.
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