I'm A Very Political Person, And I

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.

Working With Robert, Robert [elswit] Is A Storyteller. He's Not A Cinematographer, He's A Storyteller. And To Me, That's The Graduation I Hope To Get To In My Profession. That I'm Not Just An Actor, I'm A Storyteller. And I Think That Takes A Long Time In, When You Have One Job On A Movie Set. Makeup Artists, Actor, Whatever. To Graduate From Just That To Storyteller.

But You Need To Strive To Try And Communicate And Try And Change Things In A Similar Way. And Then People Can Think That's Pretentious Or Whatever, But It's Your Life's Work, And You've Decided That. That's What They Made Us Believe. So We Have A Pretty High Standard, Which Is At Times Great And At Times Not.

I've Become Obsessed With Learning Other Languages In Movies, Because I Was Like, Since I Was Like, But I Learned How To Box So Why Don't I Just Learn Another Language For A Movie?

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.