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• In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

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• I’ve definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities.

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• Well, when I was a kid and I watched ‘Speed Racer,’ I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don’t know.

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• There’s something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

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• When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

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• When you’re reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

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• On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

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• I’ve realized that what you think of when you make a ‘big movie,’ if it’s actually a green screen movie, it’s like doing independent New York theater because you don’t have any backgrounds or props. So it’s kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

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• I was so grateful to have made ‘Into the Wild’ before I made ‘Speed Racer’ because on ‘Speed Racer’ I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

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• 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.

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• ‘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.

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• 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.

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Emile Hirsch (32)

Birth:	13th March, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Emile Davenport Hirsch was born in Palms, California, USA. He is an American film actor, whose works include Into the Wild, Lone Survivor, Milk, Prince Avalanche, The Motel Life, Speed Racer and the A&E networks simulcast miniseries Bonnie & Clyde. He appeared in many television roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including the award-winning Showtime original movie Wild Iris. He plays gay rights activist Cleve Jones in Gus Van Sant's 2008 Academy Award-winning Harvey Milk bio-pic Milk that featured Sean Penn in the title role. Additionally, he starred alongside Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey in the William Friedkin directed Killer Joe.

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