199 Quotes by Liev Schreiber

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.

That is the major coup of the film.

I loved the writing part of it, but the learning curve on the actual filmmaking was steeper than I thought,

I flew in from Prague and in the end it wasn't so bad. Now that I'm here I love it, I absolutely love it.