I Have A Profound Respect

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.

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 Been Brought Up In An Elementary School Where, My First Few Grades, I Remember Being Specifically Told That My Teachers Were Gay. I Was Just That Age And That Was Just How It Was, And My Parents Were Very... You Know, That's How I Was Raised. Like Super-progressive.

One Of The Things That I'm So Proud Of [about] That Movie [brokeback Mountain], Was To See, Within The Past Basically 10 Years, How Much Has Changed. When The Supreme Court [issued A Ruling] Just A Little While Ago, I Felt Like We Had Been Part, A Little Part And Parcel Of That Movement.

Everybody Is An Actor In One Way Or Another. We Are All Performing Certain Things.