Quotes by Eric Bana

There’s a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else’s portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing – so I’ve got a lot of films to look forward to.

I’ll give you a list of a hundred ways that I’m more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they’re doing. It’s not a place where I feel I’m in unnecessary danger.

I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there’s probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that’s a pretty common thing.

I’m always reading and looking around for the next thing.

I never really think much about the size of a production because I think as an actor, once you’re in it, it’s all the same. I never ever pick projects based on their size.

It’s always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

If I read something and I love it, I’ll do it and I don’t even ask what the budget is.

Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it’s the script first and whether it’s a character that you think you can do.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it’s always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who’ve been directing all their lives.

I was a fan of the television show as a kid but I wouldn’t say that I’ve followed all the movies or anything like that. But I was a television junkie as a kid.