Aaron Eckhart Quotes

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.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.

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.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

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.

I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

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.

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.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

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.

I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

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.

I would like to direct.

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

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

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.

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'd like to do more family dramas.

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 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.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

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.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.