Emile Hirsch

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 know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

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 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.

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.

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.

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.'

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

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.

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

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.