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“He was crazy about her right away. He was anxious to have a lot of kissing scenes. He was saying, ‘In the lovemaking scene, can we really do it? Can you just put us in there and close the door and let us go?’ He was only half-kidding.” To the amusement of the other actors and crew, a visibly shy and nervous Phoenix started to woo Mathis with a boyish clumsiness, […] telling friends “his head was going to pop off if he didn’t get to hold her hand”

“[…] River began tutoring his younger brother about cinema. “My brother came home and he was like, ‘We need to watch this movie called Raging Bull.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Prior to that, I watched Caddyshack and Spaceballs. And Woody Allen comedies.” 

Not long after, he recalls his brother making a strange prediction. “He suggested I change my name [back to Joaquin] and then, I don’t know, six months later, whatever it was, we were in Florida, we were in the kitchen, and he said, ‘You’re going to be an actor and you’re going to be more well known than I am.’ Me and my mom looked at each other like, ‘What the fuck is he talking about?’

“I don’t know why he said that or what he knew of me at the time. I hadn’t been acting at all. But he also said it with a certain weight, with a knowing that seemed so absurd to me at the time, but of course now, in hindsight, you’re like, ‘How the fuck did he know?’ ”

“I love thinking and writing and researching stuff, going to the library and looking at microfilm. Environmental concerns are top on my list. If we don’t heal the earth, we’re gone” 

“I love you and you don’t pay me”

I’m a connoisseur of roads. I’ve been tasting roads my whole life. This road will never end. It probably goes all around the world.

Joaquin Phoenix ends his speech by quoting his late brother River Phoenix.

I understand.

Do you?

Yes. I know how you feel.

I think I fall in love.