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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 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.

Every Man Goes Through A Period Of Thinking They're Attracted To Another Guy.

We Were Talking About The Kissing In The Movie Just Recently. Clearly, It's Pretty Challenging Material, But Ang Said Two Men Herding Sheep Was Far More Sexual Than Two Men Having Sex On Screen.

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.