Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the actors that he's worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. 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, and that happened to be one of them.

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