I Started To Realize I

I Can't Not Have Something Attached To Like What Actually Happens In Real Life. Like I Can't Do A Romantic Comedy Without There Being Something Where Like, In The Case Of Annie Hathaway's Character, Her Character Ends Up Having Parkinson's, You Know? To Me, I Feel Like That's Love, You Know? Like To Me. So Every Movie Has To Have That Kind Of Sense Of That.

I Think It's More, At Least At The Time, A Sense Of Abstraction. My Mind Doesn't Really Work In A Way Where There's A Definitive Sense Of Something. I Go One Way And Then It Opens Up Into A Million Different Ideas, And Somehow, When You Look At The Art, Buddhist Art, Or Particularly Tibetan Art, You Know, It's A Similar Thing. All Of A Sudden There Are A Million Lotus Leaves And You're Following One To The Next And To Another, And I Related To That, And It Felt Simple And Easy To Me. And It Made Me Feel Smart.

The Truth Is Most Of The Films That Make A Lot Of Money No One Remembers, And I'm Not Interested In Making Films That No One Remembers.

As An Actor, No Matter What, You're At The Whim Of So Many Other People All The Time.

Ang Lee Just Allowed Me To Make What We Would Call Mistakes And Had No Judgment Of Them. He Also Empowered Me. You Know, He's Like, "you're My Actor. I Chose You. Whatever You Do Is Right." Right? "i Made The Decision, I'm Complicit In Choosing You. And I Went Through Everything I Could To Choose You, So I Feel Good And Whatever You're Going To Do I'm Going To Give You This Space." And So It Was Very Empowering.