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I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'. -- Will Smith
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore. -- Uwe Boll
The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now. -- Aaliyah
After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognize me. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. -- Joe Pantoliano
I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track. -- Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. -- Keanu Reeves
I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes. -- Josie Maran
Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin. -- Nadine Velazquez
I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted. -- James Denton
Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. -- Jason Reitman
There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out. -- Nicolas Cage
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction. -- Alan Arkin
I love The Matrix, especially the first one. -- Cass Sunstein
I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill. -- Drake
We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film. -- Joel Silver
I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. -- Laurence Fishburne
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. -- Roger Penrose
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. -- Robert Mark Kamen
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. -- Ethan Embry
At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know. -- Shane West
I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that. -- Joel Silver
The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless. -- Clark Gregg
'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless. -- Clark Gregg
I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered. -- Gregg Braden
'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. -- Keanu Reeves
When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light. -- James Denton
I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.' -- John Niven
There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions. -- Kevin Hearne
The fact that Gene Weingarten and I and Bathroom Inventory are now part of some kind of Matrix of Poop strongly suggests that the Pulitzer is not what it once was. -- Dave Barry
I've always liked sci-fi/fantasy films. I've never really followed any sci-fi television shows though. I wouldn't consider myself a fan. When asked, I think I say the Matrix is my favorite movie. -- Misha Collins
My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here. -- Joel Silver
Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is. -- Joseph Bologna
You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix! -- Ken Kutaragi
Anomaly is when you don't fit the expected norm. Like "wait what is this?! It doesn't belong here." Its what the system never planned for but now has to adapt to. Its Neo in The Matrix. -- lecrae
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology. -- Jason Beghe
Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved! -- Olga Kurylenko
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. -- Emile Hirsch
If the movie [The Hunger Games] were stylized violence that was pretty and fun and cool, which is great when you go see 300 or The Matrix, it would just be out of sync with the fact that they're kids. -- Nina Jacobson
When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. -- Jason Reitman
Team America must have been the biggest pain in the ass. And if we want to talk well-organized, they got Bill Pope, who is the DP on The Matrix, because he was just like, "I want to do something less serious." -- Neal Brennan
What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face. -- Ian McLeod
I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film -- Gina Gershon
I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film. -- Gina Gershon
Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them. -- John Daly
The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce. -- Jean Baudrillard
When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way. -- Michel Gondry
I spent a lot of time with both [Laurence Fishburn and Keanu Reeves], obviously, on the Matrix trilogy. Worked a lot, on a day-to-day level, with Laurence Fishburne. And then we'd bumped into each other through the film community for years and years. -- Chad Stahelski
Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that. -- Lisa Kudrow
Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that -- Lisa Kudrow
Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake. -- Charlie Brooker
When I first met Laurence I was Keanu's [Reeves] stunt double on the first Matrix. So, a little evolution there with career status. But then cut to the thirteen/fourteen years later where now I'm asking Laurence Fishburne to trust my directorial capacity [in John Wick 2]. -- Chad Stahelski
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it. -- David Zucker
You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance. -- Libba Bray
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. -- Benjamin Cardozo
The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before. -- Seth Shostak
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. -- Max Planck
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. -- Larry Niven
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life. -- Antony Gormley
When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing. -- Tom Hodgkinson
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. -- Lewis Thomas
The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world. -- Virginia Postrel
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas. -- Ronald D. Moore
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language. -- Michio Kaku
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix... -- Lauryn Hill
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism. -- Stefan Molyneux
Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers. -- Bill Joy
All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. -- Jim Blinn
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move. -- Wayne McGregor
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The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else. -- Mark V. Hurd
I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix. -- Kanye West
HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix. -- Brandon Stanton
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. -- Marshall McLuhan
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us. -- Terence McKenna
You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. -- Maxine Greene
To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. -- Judith Butler
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious. -- Boris Johnson
We all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole. -- Narissa Doumani
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. -- Doris Lessing
We are all exist in an interconnected matrix of life, so the state of your mind and heart affects the whole. -- Narissa Doumani
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form. -- Frederick Lenz
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. -- Allan Sekula
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains. -- Kathleen Raine
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. -- Norman Spinrad
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century. -- Terence McKenna
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. -- Germaine Greer
The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine. --
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it. -- Victor Papanek
You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception. -- Aeriel Miranda
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging. -- Robert Biswas-Diener
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data. -- R. D. Laing
Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us. -- George Leonard
All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Extending amnesty to those who came here illegally or overstayed their visas is dangerous waters...We are a nation of laws, and I will evaluate any proposal through that matrix. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is. -- Alan Arkin
One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos. -- Alberto Villoldo
A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part. -- Joy Harjo
If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix. -- Jonathan Haidt
There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression." -- Christina Hoff Sommers
The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream. -- Terence McKenna

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