101 Quotes by Aaron Eckhart

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.

Funerals are important rituals. They don’t just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

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 always ask, why can’t I be just like Cary Grant or something.

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’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 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.

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

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.