I Love 'training Day' - That's A

On A Spiritual Level, On A Place Where You Want To Be A Better Human Being And Listen More, I Try. I Joke, But It Has. I Mean, I Don't Consider Myself A Card-carrying Buddhist, You Know. But I Do Believe Deeply In The Ideas, And I Think Anytime You Have Interest In Anything, It Somehow Humbles You.

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.

I Don't Think I've Made A Mistake. I Think I Have Behaved In Ways That I Am Proud Of; I Think I've Behaved In Ways I'm Not.

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.

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.