To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.
Jake GyllenhaalI like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
Jake GyllenhaalIt's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
Jake GyllenhaalI always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
Jake GyllenhaalI 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.
Jake Gyllenhaal