I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

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

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

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

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. Someone pulls a gun on her I think, I'm not really fully aware of the scene and she just, she starts, you see her terrified. And then all of a sudden she starts to burst out laughing. She starts laughing. Like she can't stop laughing. Because she's terrified and she's emotional and there are no rules to what you're supposed to feel. That to me is like A number one, that's the thing I have to remind myself all the time.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.