Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it’s like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. – Joel Edgerton
I’ve never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have ‘Animal Kingdom.’ There’s not a single bad review that I’ve read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise. – Joel Edgerton
There’s definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority. – Joel Edgerton
I couldn’t do ‘Eleanor Rigby’ because it was clashing with another project – something I was going to go do – something with Liv Ullmann. – Joel Edgerton
I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate. – Joel Edgerton
I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you’re experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it’s a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be. – Joel Edgerton
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. – Joel Edgerton
I think it’s great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature. – Joel Edgerton
Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I’m in this ‘Star Wars’ world, that I’m a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it’s too hard to wrap my head around. – Joel Edgerton
Sometimes I just wonder if I’m being led by variety. If one film leads me down one path, sometimes I just want to turn around and head the opposite way for the next project. I hope that’s not the case, but sometimes I suspect that. – Joel Edgerton
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it’s also about stillness and silence. – Joel Edgerton
In Australia, there aren’t a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they’re very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity. – Joel Edgerton
I blame my work for a lot of things. I thank my work for a lot of things, too, but the trouble with being so passionately involved in work is that it becomes like a lover, like your partner, because it nourishes you. – Joel Edgerton
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up. – Joel Edgerton
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn’t end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics. – Joel Edgerton
Particularly when you’re making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives – you know? – Joel Edgerton
I’m hardly digging trenches for a living. I’m getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. – Joel Edgerton
