On Into The Wild I spent months risking my life and on Speed Racer I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination. – Emile Hirsch
Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I dont know. – Emile Hirsch
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. – Emile Hirsch
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. – Emile Hirsch
Its a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people dont like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that Ive been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism. – Michelle Forbes