As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

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.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.