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I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it.

I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.