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I Like The Conscious Manipulation That A Great Director Can Have. When You're Both Complicit In The Manipulation Of An Emotion.

At Columbia There's No Performing Arts Department, So I Was Searching For It Everywhere I Could, And I Took Some Photography Classes And I Ended Up Becoming Fascinated With Eastern Religion, And Ultimately It Seemed To Encompass The More Abstract Mind That I Have.

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.

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

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.