American - Actor | September 10, 1974 -
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
Ryan Phillippe
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But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
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I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.
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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
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Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.
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To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
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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.
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You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
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There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.
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Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
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I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
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Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
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