When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.

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

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.

What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.

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.

Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'd be like, 'I'm going to get on you.' They'd be like, 'F - off!' I didn't really have that style.