Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor, director, and writer. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including Gosford Park, Crash, and war drama Flags of Our Fathers, Breach, and Stop-Loss. In 2010, Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 September 1974
CityNew Castle, DE
CountryUnited States of America
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
I won't make a movie for money ever again.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.
There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.
The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.
You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.
The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.