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I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.
I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.
I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.
It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?
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 don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.
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
Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.
I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.
In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.
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.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.
I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
When 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.
I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!
One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
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.
I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'
I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.
There are lines that just stick with me, like I mean I still can remember it's like every line that I say from Nightcrawler, I mean it's just always there.
I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.
I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?'
It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.
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.
I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary.
I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.
I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.
I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!
The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.
Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.
We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief.
My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.
Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.
When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?
I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?
When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.
Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.