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

I think it's important for every man to find the right woman and every woman to find the right man.

Often times it's really hard for me to articulate why I connect to something.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

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.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?