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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

Aaron Eckhart

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 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

Actor Director Helping Look Love Perform
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 mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
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Great Mean Problem Thinking Writer
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’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Crime Espionage Fascinate Sort Whole
I’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Actor Day Happen Way
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
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
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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Actor Fighting Graphic Hit Hurt
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
There are different reasons to make movies.
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Different Movie Reason
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
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.
AARON ECKHART

Career Consider Job Serious Time Toilet
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
AARON ECKHART

Film Life Movie Own Take
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
AARON ECKHART

Code Important Symbolism Thinking
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
AARON ECKHART

Hand Measure Somebody Strength True Use
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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Die Hero Long Villain
Yeah, I’d like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
AARON ECKHART

Film Girl Least Make Yeah
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
AARON ECKHART

Cruel Men Tender Thinking Vice Women
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
I’d like to do more family dramas.
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Drama Family Interest Like
I would like to direct.
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Direct Wish
But I guess I like playing flawed guys ’cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
AARON ECKHART

Character Flawed Giving Guess Guy
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I’m not always happy with that.
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Always Happy Movie Rush
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
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

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