No offense to the Canadians, but I believe location is like a character, and authenticity really matters. 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. I think it’s pretty easy these days to tell films that are shot in Toronto. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that’s a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
The guy who kind of broke the story in ‘Spotlight’ was a priest, the guy who had sort of done all the research. One of the things he said when one of the ‘Spotlight’ reporters asked him how he could still remain a Catholic, he said that, ‘My faith is in the eternal, and the church is an organization.’ Liev Schreiber Read Quote
We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
The premise for me has always been that it’s vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that’s an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a – much to my chagrin – I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn’t describe them that way. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
My mother didn’t let me see color films. I saw a lot of black-and-white films. The first time I saw Basil Rathbone, I was completely taken. To me, that was the epitome of great acting, was Basil Rathbone – not only in Sherlock Holmes, but the Sheriff of Nottingham, and all the terrible characters he had to play alongside Errol Flynn. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor. Liev Schreiber Read Quote
