As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that's, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what's interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it's, that's what I mean by hard.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

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

It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.