My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

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.