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 love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work where I think I've challenged myself and no one's responded to it, and no one's interested in it.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

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

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

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.