Aaron Eckhart Quotes

• "A film has its own life and takes its own time."
• "But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go."
• "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."
• "But if anybody's a man right now, it's Christopher Reeve, or Michael J. Fox. I have a lot of respect for those guys."
• "But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies."
• "But when it comes to getting what they want, both sexes have very primal instincts."
• "Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad."
• "First of all, I love international espionage."
• "I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something."
• "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 don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy."
• "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 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."
• "I like to watch those but I also like to watch humanistic films and films that are dealing with something important."
• "I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer."
• "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."
• "I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction."
• "I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point."
• "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 think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism."
• "I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa."
• "I wish I could be a secret agent!"
• "I would like to direct."
• "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'd like to do a romantic comedy."
• "I'd like to do more family dramas."
• "I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day."
• "I'm just saying it was very weird that she would think I couldn't be different in real life from how I was onscreen."
• "I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing."
• "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."
• "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."
• "If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton."
• "If you see an intense big-budget movie, you know that actor really sacrificed for that movie."
• "In the others, the guys are all scumbags killing people and they don't brash their teeth. If that's what masculinity is, then I have a different take on it."
• "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."
• "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."
• "It's very hard for me to play things even-keeled."
• "Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness."
• "Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
• "Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically."
• "The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets."
• "The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?"
• "There are certain steps you go through to prepare yourself to remote view. You can see the future. You can see the past."
• "There are different reasons to make movies."
• "This gentlemen is convinced he knows where bodies are buried, he knows who did it, but he can't convince law enforcement because they consider him to be unscientific and more looney tuney."
• "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."
• "Tom Hanks doesn't offend anybody."
• "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."
• "When it gets down to it you just have to act."
• "Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."
• "Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
• "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."