It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.