I don’t do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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.
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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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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’m an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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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 F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It’s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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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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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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We always feel threatened by things we don’t know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.
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I always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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You can go left, you can go right, I don’t give a damn. Just make a decision.
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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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But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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Chris [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.
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I’m sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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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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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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I’d like to do a romantic comedy.
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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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A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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I would like to direct.
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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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A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
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