Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
AARON ECKHARTChris [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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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I’ve worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I’ve worked with… Sir Ben Kingsley.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I 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.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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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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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I’m allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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I’d like to do more family dramas.
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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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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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I’ve been working for many years and I think I’ve managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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If 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.
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Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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I 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.
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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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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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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.
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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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If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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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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