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 ECKHARTI’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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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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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 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.
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I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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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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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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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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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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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.
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I would like to direct.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
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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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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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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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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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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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