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

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.

Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.