Alden Ehrenreich Quotes

I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

That's a lot more legitimate than the retail therapy I do.

I'm trying to make myself sound better.

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.

[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

Warren [Beatty] was very adamant and very encouraging of me to direct. It's definitely something that I'd like to pursue more in the future.

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

I'm just excited to be a part of the movie [Star Wars]. It's always the particulars that are the most exciting.

I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.

That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

I think you always feel like you're about a hair's breadth away from being a bad actor anyway... It's not too hard to let the rope go slack, so to speak.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

[Warren Beatty] definitely sees 'Rules' as a comedic consequence to the American sexual puritanism that is dramatically presented in 'Splendor.'

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.