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 ECKHARTFilmmaking 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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I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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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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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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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’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’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 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 we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
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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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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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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 would like to direct.
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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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