I’m not really afraid of the dark, except if I’m walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.
VIN DIESELMy 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.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don’t want to do those films every year because they’re taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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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 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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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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I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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Of course, I don’t act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don’t think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.
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I’m a New Yorker. I always have issues with trust – you adopt it from being a New Yorker.
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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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When people believe in you, you can do miraculous things.
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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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I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don’t approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.
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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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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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It’s really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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