Joel Edgerton Quotes
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I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
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Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
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There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.
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I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
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You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
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I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
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My brother and I are best friends.
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I tend to take on a lot of things. And then they all just seem to happen at once. Or maybe I'm not good at saying 'No'. But the juggling's fun.
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I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
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I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
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I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.
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I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.
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There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
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Pulled pork jokes never get old.
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When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
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I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
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Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
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I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
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The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.
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The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.