I mean, the problem is, I think I’m a great writer.
AARON ECKHARTChris [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.
More Aaron Eckhart Quotes
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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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The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.
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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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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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Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
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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 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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The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
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I’d like to do more family dramas.
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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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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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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
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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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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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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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