I Love Storytelling, You Know, Beyond Anything.

There's No Shame In Somebody Who Doesn't Necessarily Do That Job Knowing A Little Bit More In That Instance Than You Might Know About Your Own Job, You Know, And I Think That Is Where Movies Are Such A Collaborative Art Form.

It's Funny To Me That People Find Other People Getting Coffee Really Interesting, Or Walking Their Dog In The Dog Park.

Ang [lee] Gave Us A Lot Of Books About Cowboys Who Had Been Gay Or Stories About It And All That Stuff. And I Just Talked To A Lot Of My Friends - Who [was] Their First, Particularly Same-sex, First Situation. That Was Fascinating To Me - Trying To Learn What That Was In A Certain Period Of Time. Certain Age. The Secrecy Involved In It. All Those Things.

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

By Cool, I Don't Mean Cool. I Mean Vulnerable And A Mess.