As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing.

I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

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 want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.