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.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I try and find and access the parts of myself that still blindly believe and have faith in a lot of things. I don't mean to be cynical, but I've also discovered that I still have a lot of those. And they may not be where I expected them to be. Maybe I've been in relationships, and this is a movie about relationships, like romance relationships - so maybe I've been in some that have sort of made me lose my faith. But deep down inside, I still have blind faith.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

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.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

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