I'm Superstitious A Little Bit.

When You Find Theater Writing Like In The Theater On Film But It's Realistic, It Doesn't Matter Who The Character Is, You Want To Do It.

To Me Donnie Darko Was About Adolescence. And About How, As Soon As You Start To Grow Up And You Sort Of Move Out Into The World, You Realize Everything Is So Trippy. That Anything Can Be Anything.

Ang [lee] Gave Us A Lot Of Books About Cowboys Who Had Been Gay Or Stories About It And All That Stuff. And I Just Talked To A Lot Of My Friends - Who [was] Their First, Particularly Same-sex, First Situation. That Was Fascinating To Me - Trying To Learn What That Was In A Certain Period Of Time. Certain Age. The Secrecy Involved In It. All Those Things.

I Understand The Opposite Side Of The Camera. I Have A Profound Respect For That. I Have Worked With People Who, When You Hit That Mark, Are Doing 50 Percent Of Your Work For You. So, You Know, It's A Balance. When You Walk Into A Mark And You're Lit A Certain Way Or Something's Happening So Often You Don't Know What's Behind You... And That's What's So Strange About Being A Movie Actor.

Working With Robert, Robert [elswit] Is A Storyteller. He's Not A Cinematographer, He's A Storyteller. And To Me, That's The Graduation I Hope To Get To In My Profession. That I'm Not Just An Actor, I'm A Storyteller. And I Think That Takes A Long Time In, When You Have One Job On A Movie Set. Makeup Artists, Actor, Whatever. To Graduate From Just That To Storyteller.