I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
Jake GyllenhaalSometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.
Jake GyllenhaalWhen 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.
Jake GyllenhaalI can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without there being something where like, in the case of Annie Hathaway's character, her character ends up having Parkinson's, you know? To me, I feel like that's love, you know? Like to me. So every movie has to have that kind of sense of that.
Jake Gyllenhaal