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.
VIN DIESELI’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
More Vin Diesel Quotes
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That’s what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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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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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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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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I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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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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I’m not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
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I’ve directed independent film.
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They say the open road helps you think. About where you’ve been and where you’re going.
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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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I’m a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.
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Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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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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I think there’s something we all relate to about wanting to get to our most primal self.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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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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I am definitely a person of color.
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When I’m writing, I’m locking myself in a room. I’m the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I’m like “Vin, you’re retarded, that makes no sense.”
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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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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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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 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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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn’t getting any acting jobs.
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