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
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.
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.
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.
I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
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!".
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.
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.
Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.
I'm a very, very conservative driver.
In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.
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.
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.