Even As An Actor, I

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.

To Me Donnie Darko Was About Adolescence. And About How, As Soon As You Start To Grow Up And You Sort Of Move Out Into The World, You Realize Everything Is So Trippy. That Anything Can Be Anything.

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.

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.

I Had Not Spent A Ton Of Time Around Animals As A Kid.