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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More Aaron Eckhart Quotes
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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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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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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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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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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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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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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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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.
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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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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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The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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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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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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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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I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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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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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 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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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
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I’d like to do more family dramas.
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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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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 don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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