Aaron Eckhart
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.Collection: Relationship
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.Collection: Movies
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.Collection: Movies
I'd like to do a romantic comedy.Collection: Romantic
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Business
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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.
Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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.
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
I'd like to do more family dramas.
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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.
I would like to direct.
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 mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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.
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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.
Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
There are different reasons to make movies.
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.Collection: Caring
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.Collection: Hero
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.Collection: Friendship
You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.Collection: Giving
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Quality
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.Collection: Character
A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.Collection: Hands
A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.Collection: Sex
I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.Collection: Ecosystems
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.Collection: Teaching
We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.Collection: Weird Things