I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough, like sometimes there are very simple things that are enough.

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.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

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.

I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game.