I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.
VIN DIESELUnfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We’ve all experienced that, in one way or another.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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I can’t go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I’m anything, I’m inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.
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When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.
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I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I’ve never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.
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Nothing comes easy when I’m in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.
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We’ve come a long way, from where we’ve been. I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.
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Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We’re all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made.
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I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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It’s like you have a child and you think, ‘Everything that I’ve done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.’ It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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It wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.
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I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for Iron Giant, and I’m not even on the screen.
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I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I’d be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she’s magical.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.
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We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We’ve all experienced that, in one way or another.
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It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can’t look to one person – you couldn’t look to me, you couldn’t say, ‘Because Vin’s in it, it’s this or that.’ It’s really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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