I'm A Very Political Person, And I

I Can't Not Have Something Attached To Like What Actually Happens In Real Life. Like I Can't Do A Romantic Comedy Without There Being Something Where Like, In The Case Of Annie Hathaway's Character, Her Character Ends Up Having Parkinson's, You Know? To Me, I Feel Like That's Love, You Know? Like To Me. So Every Movie Has To Have That Kind Of Sense Of That.

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'm A Harsh Critic, You Know? I Am.

I Think It's More, At Least At The Time, A Sense Of Abstraction. My Mind Doesn't Really Work In A Way Where There's A Definitive Sense Of Something. I Go One Way And Then It Opens Up Into A Million Different Ideas, And Somehow, When You Look At The Art, Buddhist Art, Or Particularly Tibetan Art, You Know, It's A Similar Thing. All Of A Sudden There Are A Million Lotus Leaves And You're Following One To The Next And To Another, And I Related To That, And It Felt Simple And Easy To Me. And It Made Me Feel Smart.

Really, Contrary To Popular Belief, I Like To Have A Good Time And Not Take Myself Too Seriously.