Do You Know What Fear Stands For?

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

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.

One Of The Things That I'm So Proud Of [about] That Movie [brokeback Mountain], Was To See, Within The Past Basically 10 Years, How Much Has Changed. When The Supreme Court [issued A Ruling] Just A Little While Ago, I Felt Like We Had Been Part, A Little Part And Parcel Of That Movement.

Not To Say That You Should Be Constantly Trying To Change The World, But I Think It's Important To Know That Whatever We Do Has An Implication And Has An Effect, And Because Of That It Is Political.

Don't Listen To What Anybody Says Except The People Who Encourage You.