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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.

Aaron Eckhart

I would like to direct.
AARON ECKHART

Direct Wish
There are different reasons to make movies.
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Different Movie Reason
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
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
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Bad Director Look Producer
If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
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Look Masculinity Talking Tender
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
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
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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Code Important Symbolism Thinking
I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Crime Espionage Fascinate Sort Whole
We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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Definite Feel Thing Threatened Weird
But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Less More Movie School Sex
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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Begin Caring Life People Stop Thinking
I’d like to do more family dramas.
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Drama Family Interest Like
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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Look Research Stupid World
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

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 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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