The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.