Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

Every journey starts with fear.

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.

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.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.