“The comic book world is a tough business.”
Business
“My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.”
CarAll Quotes by Shia LaBeouf
“I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.”
Amazing“I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.”
Money“My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.”
Money“I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.”
Relationship“I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.”
Dating“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.”
Future“I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.”
Hope“Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.”
Business“I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.”
Movies“You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.”
Respect“There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.”
Relationship“I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.”
Movies“When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.”
Positive“I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.”
Cool“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.”
Dad“If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.”
Change“What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.”
Cool“To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.”
Amazing“When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.”
Sports