A film has its own life and takes its own time.
AARON ECKHARTActors 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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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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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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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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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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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 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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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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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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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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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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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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But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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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 always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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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’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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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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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 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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Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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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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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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Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
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Well, I’ve thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don’t know what I’d do.
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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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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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