“I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.” WantEvilInterestPathGunStuck Author:Joel Edgerton
“I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.” IfsKnowsAgeJobsRememberBrotherSittingMy BrotherAustraliaSquares Author: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.” CharacterFantasyDiggingTrenchesBoyhoodLarger Than Life Author: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.” BelieveRealProjectsPrivilege Author:Joel Edgerton
“I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.” PeopleThinkingPlayMightLateSittingListsToo LateThinking God Author: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.” IfsSometimesPlayCharacterAbleInterestingRolesSupportRichFinding YourselfGreyIndulgeMost InterestingStanceIndulge InTerrain Author:Joel Edgerton
“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.” ThinkingThreeRoomsAudienceDramaWindowShockInvitingLarger Than LifeDrama Life Author:Joel Edgerton
“To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.” IfsKnowsKindMomentsFilmStepsImagineRocksBearsToughOkayBallsTennisWildernessTentaclesGrizzliesTennis BallsGrizzly BearsTough Moments Author:Joel Edgerton