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

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.

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.

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

I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

I 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.