As Much As I Am One For

'brokeback Mountain' Takes All Your Conceptions Of America, And The Western, And Cowboys, And Sexuality, And Love, And It Stirs Them All Up.

I Try And Find And Access The Parts Of Myself That Still Blindly Believe And Have Faith In A Lot Of Things. I Don't Mean To Be Cynical, But I've Also Discovered That I Still Have A Lot Of Those. And They May Not Be Where I Expected Them To Be. Maybe I've Been In Relationships, And This Is A Movie About Relationships, Like Romance Relationships - So Maybe I've Been In Some That Have Sort Of Made Me Lose My Faith. But Deep Down Inside, I Still Have Blind Faith.

I Think Also What's Interesting Is That Maggie [gyllenhaal] Knows How Much The Choices That I Make Reflect What's Going On In My Life. Admittedly, Probably, As My Sister, And As Someone Who Loves Me - Like, She Can't Wait To See Become A Father.

I Understand The Opposite Side Of The Camera. I Have A Profound Respect For That. I Have Worked With People Who, When You Hit That Mark, Are Doing 50 Percent Of Your Work For You. So, You Know, It's A Balance. When You Walk Into A Mark And You're Lit A Certain Way Or Something's Happening So Often You Don't Know What's Behind You... And That's What's So Strange About Being A Movie Actor.

I Have Always Had A Deep Belief That Every Movie, Every Artistic Expression, Is Political. Don't Be Fooled. Even Ones That We Wouldn't Consider Overtly Political Are Political. When We Spend Time Doing Anything, Whether It's Distraction Or Whether It's Something That We Have To Face, It Is Always Political. That's My Belief.