38 Motivational Quotes By Aaron Eckhart That You Will Savour
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.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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.
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.
I would like to direct.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
There are different reasons to make movies.
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.
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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.
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.
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
I'd like to do more family dramas.
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.