Emile Hirsch
Emile Hirsch
Emile Davenport Hirsch is an American television and film actor, whose works include Wild Iris, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, The Mudge Boy, Imaginary Heroes, Lords of Dogtown, Alpha Dog, Into the Wild, Milk, Speed Racer, Taking Woodstock, The Motel Life, Savages, Lone Survivor, Prince Avalanche, and the A&E networks simulcast miniseries Bonnie & Clyde...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 March 1985
CityTopanga, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!".
People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.
I'm a very, very conservative driver.
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.
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.
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.
In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!