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You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Aaron Eckhart

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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Boulevard Fashion Good Hollywood Sex Star
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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Character Judge People Performance Responsibility
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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Hand Measure Somebody Strength True Use
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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Cruel Men Tender Thinking Vice Women
I would like to direct.
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Direct Wish
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Film Life Movie Own Take
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
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Actor FBI Point Thinking Want
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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Death Funeral Important Recognize Ritual
Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Film Girl Least Make Yeah
I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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Great Mean Problem Thinking Writer
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
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Cruel Dark Morality Unbiased World
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
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
You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
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Damm Decision Giving Lest Right
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
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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Career Consider Job Serious Time Toilet
I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Crime Espionage Fascinate Sort Whole
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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Alien Movie Reality Ugly Thing War
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 always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Ask Grant Like Something
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
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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Career Guy Made Movie Physical Sport
Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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Grant Nobody Romance Yeah
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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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.
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Passionate Thinking Try Trying Weakness
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

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