Do You Know What Fear Stands For?

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

I Have A Profound Respect For Cinematographers. That Is My Secret Sauce. Like They Are Everything To Me.

I Don't Think I Had Any Idea At The Time How To Work With Someone As Masterful As He Is. And I Don't Think At The Time I Really Understood What Was Happening. I Think I Was In A Space Where I Was Like: There Are All These Things. I Was Shooting All These Takes With David, And I Was Just Confused, As A Person, And As An Actor Feeling A Little Too Big For My Britches And That This Thing Was Happening And Then Also Not Having Enough Skill Yet, And Technique To Know Exactly Where I Was, And Know About The Character.

I Had Not Spent A Ton Of Time Around Animals As A Kid.

As Uta Hagen Would Say, There's The Representational Actor And The Presentational Actor. My Sister [maggie Gyllenhaal] Came Up To Me Recently After She Saw This Movie, Southpaw, The Movie I Did, And She Thought There Was This Exploration Of That Type Of Presentation, And A Bit Of Representation As Well, If I Could Be Totally Honest, Where She Was Deeply Moved.