I’ve fallen in love with the whole process of making films, from the script to the screen.

I wrote ‘All is Lost’ while editing ‘Margin Call’. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.

In a world of scripts and stages, authenticity is the actor’s greatest gift to the audience

Even if you come up with a conventional script, directors face several issues in convincing people to get on board

I remember on ‘Dr. Katz,’ there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines.

I play Father Francis in ‘The Exorcist Prequel.’ It’s fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It’s just a fantastic script. It’s a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

Being on TV sucks. It’s a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything.

I never say never, but I haven’t been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I’m about seeing long-term, seeing a vision, understanding nothing really worthwhile happens overnight, and just sticking to your script long enough to make something real happen

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

It’s very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don’t get it, I can’t do it