Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." Figure out what you are truly saying, whittle it down to the essence, then say that.

Everybody is an actor in one way or another. We are all performing certain things.

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.

We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets very close in preproduction and rehearsals. And then he allows his actors - I don't think scared of actors, but I think he's scared of getting in on the scenes he's watching. The space he's watching. So he just totally disconnects from you while you're shooting.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple.