You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
AARON ECKHARTYou either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
AARON ECKHARTI like doing movies with kids in them, and you’re explaining things. They’re teaching you and you’re teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.
AARON ECKHARTI think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
AARON ECKHARTI got as much information as I could, so I wouldn’t look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there’s only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
AARON ECKHARTI think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHARTI’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
AARON ECKHARTI 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.
AARON ECKHARTThe F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
AARON ECKHARTYou 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.
AARON ECKHARTBut I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
AARON ECKHARTA GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
AARON ECKHARTThere are different reasons to make movies.
AARON ECKHARTI 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.
AARON ECKHARTI think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
AARON ECKHART