You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

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.

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

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

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

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.