Reeves: “When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want, I just react. I go against it.”

Reeves: "I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria."

Reeves: "I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here."

Reeves: "Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."

Reeves: “Honestly, I try not to do anything I don’t want to do.”

Reeves: "I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more."

Reeves: "I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime."

Reeves: "Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth."

Reeves: "Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place."

Reeves: "Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us."

Reeves: "I don't know if that's philosophy or if that's something else, but to me it [digital filming] has an emotional feeling , that this materiality, the loss of the materiality."

Reeves: "One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chronicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself."

Reeves: "Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account."

Reeves: "Life is good when you have a good sandwich."

Reeves: "Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of - I think it depends on one's psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are - who couldn't quite do that."

Reeves: “I don’t have kids or anything like that, so I get to be less responsible! The day is kind of like, ‘What, creatively, can I do?’”

Reeves: "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."

Reeves: "And it's easy to stay grounded. The ground is very close. And we walk on it every day."

Reeves: "Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of 'The Matrix,' especially in 'Reloaded,' there was the city square, or in 'Revolutions' with some of the machine world, you're like, 'Wow, this is a big playground,' which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys."

Reeves: "The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."

Reeves: "I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually."

Reeves: "Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."