I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

One of the things that I'm so proud of [about] that movie [Brokeback Mountain], was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.