When they're good, I like working with new actors.
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.
I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.
It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.
I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it.
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time.
With most movies I've done before, I've done a lot of preparation. I've known about them long before [shooting], and I've prepped and changed my body and done research, and all the things you could imagine.
I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how.
I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.
I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.
I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.
Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.
There are many actors I really like and whose work I admire.
I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.
I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.
