I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.

I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down.