My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.