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A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.