Aaron Eckhart Quotes

I want to give fans what's expected of me and once I've made my mark, I can experiment and do the kind of films I'd like to do.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

Whatever field you can do that, that's where you want to do it, and I think that's why people like David Fincher and Ridley Scott are interested in it, too, because when you sit down on a meeting in HBO and they're like, "More, more." You're just like, "Oh yeah, I love this." Sometimes it's a little harder in film. I think also it's a great audience, take advantage of it. It's a great audience.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I must say, to my great surprise and pleasure, I deeply loved making movies in the United States because of all the opportunities it gave me to work with people that I admire as artists.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.