199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

"We talked about our grandfathers and their senses of humor and our sense of culture and history, and we had a lot in common,"

"When I read Jonathan's story, I said, 'This is just too weird and too serendipitous,'"

"There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very, very good-natured person. He is a truly kind person. I put him in some of the worst circumstances that you could put a human being in and there were homeless guys who I'd hired to be in the movie because I liked the way they looked, and they complained sooner than Elijah did."

"I spoke to (director/historian Peter) Bogdanovich, who knew him personally,"

"This movie questions whether the tragedies and disasters that are happening are man-made or do they collectively add up to something wicked this way comes, ... Fear has a tremendous power both socially and politically now. What's more relevant than anxiety of the unknown?"

"It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also triggers an emotional response. It's that kind of chaos and absurdity that results in an opening-up to a discovery of deeper emotion."

"It was really overwhelming to see the way that people responded - the kind of class and grace, and compassion and support, and resourcefulness that people showed. It was almost like rather than knocking us down, Sept. 11 kind of stepped us up. I was very impressed with that. It showed me that there's really nothing we can't handle."

"It was incredibly cathartic after spending eight hours in an editing room being frustrated by the filmmaking process to be able to go out and say the 'F' word 104 times,"

"Then I forgot about it when I had to go to work."

"It's strange - well for me anyway - to be inundated with all this attention, and as a couple we have to struggle to keep our personal life personal."