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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

A lot of the stuff in 'Speed Racer' has never been done before, from it having a multi-tone, to it having a retro-cool family movie, to having the photo-realism with the CG-backgrounds and infinite focus the way they worked with these digital cameras, to even the color experimentation.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.