I 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 ECKHARTSome movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you’re going to epitomize that person for the rest of their lives. They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people. You have a certain responsibility.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that’s what I’m always looking for, a director that’s going to help me go places I’ve never been before.
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
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The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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I 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.
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Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn’t feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.
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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.
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Actors aren’t fighters. They don’t know how to throw a punch. So, there’s a lot of hitting in the face. I’d much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don’t like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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I’ve not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I’m a very physical guy.
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