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I Was Kind Of Scared Of Failing At Acting.

I Was A Black Center In The Middle Of All The Nature. I Was Nothing, But I Could Do Anything.

I Think As Far As Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles, "brokeback Mountain" Was A Big Breakthrough. I'm Pretty Sure When They Were Casting That Movie That - I Think The Story Is, Like You Know, 10 To 15 Other Actors Turned It Down.

Most Of The Books That I've Adapted I'm Doing Because I Love The Book And I Feel Like It's A Great Work Of Art In Itself, And When It's A Great Book I Feel As A Director Or A Writer That I Have A Responsibility To Rise To The Level Of The Original. It Makes Me Try To Reach Higher.

There's Art On The Show That's Really Bad - These Cliché Abstract Expressionist Gestural Things. It's Almost Like Extensions Of My Performance, Because In The Scene I'm Really Mad.