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Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

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
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Film Life Movie Own Take
I’ve not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I’m a very physical guy.
AARON ECKHART

Career Guy Made Movie Physical Sport
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 think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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Code Important Symbolism Thinking
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.
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Hand Measure Somebody Strength True Use
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
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.
AARON ECKHART

Grief Look Tool Unbelieve YouTube
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.
AARON ECKHART

Difficult Film Filmmaking Logistic Magic Process
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos – it was its own little ecosystem.
AARON ECKHART

Cockroach Ecosystem Infested Plymouth Valiant
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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City Job New York Thousand Year
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 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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Boxing Brutal Fight Fighting Game People
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
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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Bad Director Look Producer

Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

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