199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

I was out of my head. I was really frantic, ... I guess I was always under the misconception that a director makes the film, and it's not true. A director directs the people who make the film.

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.

There has been some updating. It's really quite smart.

When you have this structure of a stranger in a strange land, it is essential that the place and characters be really authentic.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

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,