Emile Hirsch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!”

“I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.”

“We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.”

“Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.”

“In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.”

“The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.”

“I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.”

“I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.”

“On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.”

“There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.”