Aaron Eckhart

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

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

“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”

“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 would like to direct.”

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

“But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.”

“I'd like to do a romantic comedy.”

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

“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.”

“I'd like to do more family dramas.”

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

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