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 ECKHARTI think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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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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I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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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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Right now, I have to admit, that I’m more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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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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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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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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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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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 think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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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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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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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 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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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’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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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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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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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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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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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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