Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
AARON ECKHARTWell, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
AARON ECKHARTFilmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else’s part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.
AARON ECKHARTI’m always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.
AARON ECKHARTSome movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
AARON ECKHARTA GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
AARON ECKHARTSome movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
AARON ECKHARTYou can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
AARON ECKHARTIf you go to YouTube and look up ‘grief’ you can find them and it’s just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It’s like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.
AARON ECKHARTI wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.
AARON ECKHARTI think that maybe that’s my weakness, in that I don’t know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
AARON ECKHARTI owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos – it was its own little ecosystem.
AARON ECKHARTI think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHARTYou either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
AARON ECKHARTFunerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
AARON ECKHARTI often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
AARON ECKHARTI’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
AARON ECKHART