Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I would like to direct.

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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'd like to do a romantic comedy.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

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

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

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