Joel Edgerton Quotes
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Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!
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I always kept myself fairly fit.
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That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
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I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.
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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 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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I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
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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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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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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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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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The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.
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My brother and I are best friends.
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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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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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Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.
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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'm really great at making terrible analogies.
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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.