Joshua Leonard (Actor)

"I'm not the most talented guy in the world, and I have no delusions about that. I know so many talented people who have never had the kind of public exposure that I'm fortunate enough to get at this point." - Leonard quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 17, 1999

On "The Blair Witch Project": "When we signed on to do the project, one of the first things they told us was, 'Your safety is our concern. Your comfort is not.' And they made that blatantly clear from the very beginning. You understand that intellectually, but still there's no way to really prepare. When you're on your third PowerBar day, when your cigarettes are gone, when you haven't showered, when you've been kept awake, when you've got a sleep deprivation thing going, when you're exhausted, when there's two inches of rain in the bottom of your tent - you've got to act. You're wiping your ass with leaves and you're with two total strangers 24 hours a day and there are babies crying outside your tents at 4 in the morning. There's only so much that you can intellectually prepare for, and then you go out and that's where you get the method, that's where you get reality." - Leonard to Salon magazine, July 13, 1999