#film roles

“I love a good story…I don’t think it’s worth taking the bigger pay cheques just to tell dumb stories.”

–  Joel Edgerton on his “picky” approach to accepting film roles

“I steer clear of things that I feel just aren’t acting, or if I feel that any number of people could do the job, like it could be me or any one of a hundred guys. A gauge for me is, would I want to watch this movie?”

“There’s nothing worse than playing a morally upright, all-round good guy - you know, the handsome, romantic type - unless there’s something ballsy in there as well, a problem or a character flaw.”

–  Joel Edgerton 

“I always check with my brother when I’m offered a role. And he’ll say, ‘Take the money away from the equation, do you really want to do that movie?’ And when I say, ‘No, but they’re going to give me X amount of dollars,’ he tells me not to do the movie because I already get paid enough. And he’s right.”

–  Joel Edgerton