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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.

Aaron Eckhart

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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Explaining Kid Movie Teaching
I’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.
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Fascinate Person Productive Quality Terror
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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Character Judge People Performance Responsibility
I 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.
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Passionate Thinking Try Trying Weakness
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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Nut Procedure Street Walking Witness
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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Actor Dramatic Movie Play Plot Today
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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Die Hero Long Villain
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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Best Manage People Thinking Work Year
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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Career Consider Job Serious Time Toilet
Filmmaking 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.
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Difficult Film Filmmaking Logistic Magic Process
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos – it was its own little ecosystem.
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Cockroach Ecosystem Infested Plymouth Valiant
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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Actor Als Feel Good Make Work
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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Grief Look Tool Unbelieve YouTube
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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Death Funeral Important Recognize Ritual
I can think of films that I’m producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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Film Historical Produce Thinking Violence
But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Character Flawed Giving Guess Guy

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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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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