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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.

Vin Diesel

Show me how you drive and I’ll show you who you are.
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Drive Myself Personality Style
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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Action Appreciation Movie Performance Role Understand Yourself
When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
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Children Fear Myself Tree
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Love Myself Possible Project Thinking
Any film that you see is never just the director. If it’s a film that you love, it’s not so easy to say, “Oh it’s directed by this person – that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful.”
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Director Easy Movie Person Wonder Yourself
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.
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Afraid Darkness Exception Lips Myself Possible Walk Wall
With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Age People Place Yourself
I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There’s something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.
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Character Enjoyment Feeling Learning Myself Play Therapy
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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Approach Enjoyment Flattery Kind Myself People Talent Thinking Worth
I’ve turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Decline Movie Myself
I’m a boy who appreciates a good body, regardless of the make.
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Appreciation Body Goodness Myself
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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Character Focus Myself Pocket Possible Process Stay
I’m going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.
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Best Channel Character Level Myself Spiritual
I’m a perfectionist. I’m very critical, especially artistically.
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Artistic Criticism Myself Perfection
I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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Consistent Discipline Enough Myself Writing
I have dangerous bones in my body.
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Body Bone Dangerous Myself
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.
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Actor Choice Job Myself Option Preference School
I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.
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Actor Collaboration Effort Movie Myself Scene Shine Steal Strong
I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.
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Action Actor Care Myself
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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Fiction Follow Imagination Love Myself Mythology Science Vision
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 love women more than anything.
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Love Myself Woman
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
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Call Details Himself Movie Revenge Thinking Traditional
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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Development Dreams Myself Night Project Work
They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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Help Open Road Thinking Yourself
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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Faith Feeling Movie Sequel Writing Yourself
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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Children Exception Movie Myself Screen See Thinking

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