Ed Harris Quotes
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.