Crazy People Don't Sit Around Wondering If

You Have Formal Rehearsal, A Lot Of Things You Don't Have In Movies - Which Is, You Have To Formally Rehearse. You Have To Know Your Back Story, Discuss It, And Almost Everybody Onstage Has To Know Each Other's [story], So That When It Comes Time To Actually Do It, You Can Throw It All Away. That's The Way I Like To - And I Didn't Realize Until Very Recently - That's The Way I Like To Prepare For Movies.

Dad, I May Not Be The Best, But I Come To Believe That I Got It In Me To Be Somebody In This World. And It's Not Because I'm So Different From You Either. It's Because I'm The Same. I Mean, I Can Be Just As Hard-headed, And Just As Tough. I Only Hope I Can Be As Good A Man As You.

I'm Always Nervous About It. You Know, Somehow, Without Even Knowing It, I Try And Recreate The Idea Of What It Feels Like To Go In Front Of An Audience Every Night When I'm Making A Film. And That Similar Type Of Pressure And Excitement Before A Scene, Or Preparing For A Movie, So...

Heath [ledger] Would Walk Up To A Horse And Could Like Silence The Horse. Just Literally He'd Be Like, 'shh. Shh.' And Then He'd Get On The Horse. I'd Be Like, 'i'm Going To Get On You.' They'd Be Like, 'f - Off!' I Didn't Really Have That Style.

My Parents Taught Me As A Kid: Do Your Work. Do It Well. Try As Hard As You Can, Whatever It Is. It Will One Day, For The Long Run, It Will Make Some Sort Of Change Somewhere.