List of Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

Peter Sarsgaard, He's An Extraordinary Actor, And I Would Say That Peter Has Really Brought Into My Life And My Sister's Life A Sense Of Presence As An Actor That I Never Really Understood Or Knew About Until I Met Him. They've Been Together For A Very Long Time, And He Introduced Me To The Idea Of The Presentation.

On A Spiritual Level, On A Place Where You Want To Be A Better Human Being And Listen More, I Try. I Joke, But It Has. I Mean, I Don't Consider Myself A Card-carrying Buddhist, You Know. But I Do Believe Deeply In The Ideas, And I Think Anytime You Have Interest In Anything, It Somehow Humbles You.

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.

As An Actor, No Matter What, You're At The Whim Of So Many Other People All The Time.

I Was Brought Up, And My Sister Too, With Two People Who Were Always Saying, "what You Do Is Really Nowhere Near As Important As The Things That Are Going On In The World, And If Your Work Needs To Reflect That, Or You Want It To, Then You Need To Strive For A Certain Type Of Excellence."

I Like The Conscious Manipulation That A Great Director Can Have. When You're Both Complicit In The Manipulation Of An Emotion.

I Can't Not Have Something Attached To Like What Actually Happens In Real Life. Like I Can't Do A Romantic Comedy Without There Being Something Where Like, In The Case Of Annie Hathaway's Character, Her Character Ends Up Having Parkinson's, You Know? To Me, I Feel Like That's Love, You Know? Like To Me. So Every Movie Has To Have That Kind Of Sense Of That.

I Don't Think I Had Any Idea At The Time How To Work With Someone As Masterful As He Is. And I Don't Think At The Time I Really Understood What Was Happening. I Think I Was In A Space Where I Was Like: There Are All These Things. I Was Shooting All These Takes With David, And I Was Just Confused, As A Person, And As An Actor Feeling A Little Too Big For My Britches And That This Thing Was Happening And Then Also Not Having Enough Skill Yet, And Technique To Know Exactly Where I Was, And Know About The Character.

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.

When I Look At That Now, All I Think About Is What A Master [david Fincher] I Was Working With, And All Of The Things I Could Have Watched And Learned - And I Didn't. And How, Now, In My Career, How I Would Love To Have A Ton Of Takes.

We Are All From Different Cultures. Heath's [ledger] Australian, Really. I'm From Here. Ang's [lee] From China. But I Think Ang Gets Very Close In Preproduction And Rehearsals. And Then He Allows His Actors - I Don't Think Scared Of Actors, But I Think He's Scared Of Getting In On The Scenes He's Watching. The Space He's Watching. So He Just Totally Disconnects From You While You're Shooting.

As A Producer, You Have An Opportunity To See The Whole And Bring People Together.