black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
AARON ECKHART

Cruel Dark Morality Unbiased World
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.
AARON ECKHART

Explaining Kid Movie Teaching
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.
AARON ECKHART

Passionate Thinking Try Trying Weakness
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.
AARON ECKHART

Best Manage People Thinking Work Year
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
AARON ECKHART

Nut Procedure Street Walking Witness
Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
AARON ECKHART

Death Funeral Important Recognize Ritual
You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
AARON ECKHART

Damm Decision Giving Lest Right
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
AARON ECKHART

America Appeal Country FAction Now Thinking
I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
AARON ECKHART

Although Comedy Like Much
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
AARON ECKHART

Always Happy Movie Rush
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
AARON ECKHART

Die Hero Long Villain
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.
AARON ECKHART

Grief Look Tool Unbelieve YouTube
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.
AARON ECKHART

Actor Als Feel Good Make Work
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.
AARON ECKHART

Look Research Stupid World
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
AARON ECKHART

Begin Caring Life People Stop Thinking
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos – it was its own little ecosystem.
AARON ECKHART

Cockroach Ecosystem Infested Plymouth Valiant
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.
AARON ECKHART

Film Historical Produce Thinking Violence
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.
AARON ECKHART

Baby Dog Friendship Kid Marvel Nose
I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
AARON ECKHART

Actor Day Happen Way
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.
AARON ECKHART

Character Judge People Performance Responsibility
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHART

Code Important Symbolism Thinking
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

Batsman Book City Different Feel
There are different reasons to make movies.
AARON ECKHART

Different Movie Reason
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
AARON ECKHART

Bad Director Look Producer
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
AARON ECKHART

Boulevard Fashion Good Hollywood Sex Star
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.
AARON ECKHART

Boxing Brutal Fight Fighting Game People
If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.
AARON ECKHART

Look Masculinity Talking Tender

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aaron Eckhart Quotes