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If we’re talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don’t look at Clinton.

Aaron Eckhart

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.
AARON ECKHART

Difficult Film Filmmaking Logistic Magic Process
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
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
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Film Life Movie Own Take
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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Giving Goodness Hope Interest Little People
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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Boxing Brutal Fight Fighting Game People
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’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
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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Actor Dramatic Movie Play Plot Today
I’d like to do more family dramas.
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Drama Family Interest Like
Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Grant Nobody Romance Yeah
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
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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Film Help Movie People Successful Watch
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 always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
AARON ECKHART

Ask Grant Like Something

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