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The Great Gatsby
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Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Joel Edgerton Quotes

Whereas ‘Avatar’ and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, ‘Gatsby’ is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

– Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I’m constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

– Joel Edgerton

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

– Joel Edgerton

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

– Joel Edgerton

To me, ‘Warrior’ was a real turning point – probably one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had as an actor on set.

– Joel Edgerton

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.

– Joel Edgerton

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

– Joel Edgerton

I would have happily done ‘Bourne Legacy,’ but a lot of decisions are made for you.

– Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about religion is it’s there to teach us the good path and that we’re all equal, that we should be treated as such.

– Joel Edgerton

I don’t necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I’ve been in a few movies.

– Joel Edgerton

This is the world we live in, isn’t it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, ‘Let’s do another origins Wolverine movie.’

– Joel Edgerton

I’m pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise.

– Joel Edgerton

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with ‘Wish You Were Here’ is that we’re shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it’s very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.

– Joel Edgerton

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

– Joel Edgerton

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don’t choose money first; it won’t make you happy.

– Joel Edgerton

I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.

– Joel Edgerton

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that’s really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve… making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

– Joel Edgerton

I don’t want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.

– Joel Edgerton

It’s funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they’re actually told to you.

– Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you’ve got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they’ll shock you by their behavior.

– Joel Edgerton

I just love good movies. And not every movie you’re going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.

– Joel Edgerton

I’m not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I’m just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in – that’s a real privilege.

– Joel Edgerton

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don’t know where you will be next year or how long you’ll be there for.

– Joel Edgerton

The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I’d rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

– Joel Edgerton

I just don’t want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I’m really proud of.

– Joel Edgerton

Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.

– Joel Edgerton

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you’re kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

– Joel Edgerton

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.

– Joel Edgerton

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

– Joel Edgerton

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

– Joel Edgerton

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