I Don't Think I've Made A Mistake.

I'm At A Period In My Life When I'm Figuring Out My Idea Of Who I Am And What I Want And How To Hold Onto Love -- All That Big Stuff. And I'm Starting To Realize That It Can Happen At Any Age. I Know People Who Are In Their 50s Who Are Figuring Out What They Want And Who They Are, And I Think It's Great. It's Like You're Always Approaching Life As A Beginner.

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.

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

As Uta Hagen Would Say, There's The Representational Actor And The Presentational Actor. My Sister [maggie Gyllenhaal] Came Up To Me Recently After She Saw This Movie, Southpaw, The Movie I Did, And She Thought There Was This Exploration Of That Type Of Presentation, And A Bit Of Representation As Well, If I Could Be Totally Honest, Where She Was Deeply Moved.

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.