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only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll
just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again....
I don't want to do this for the rest of my life....I don't want to spend
the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much I want
to discover.
Thousands of women were falling in love with him all the time. So when he finally finds a woman who isn't attracted to any of that, that's what really devastates him, and interests him,
I
take a lot of photos of people.
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
I'm
not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm
doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I
completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
I'm
still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting
to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I
was on a journey, and I still am.
I
prefer to date older women because they don't try to act older like
younger girls but because they try to act younger.
It's
a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when
the heat's on, the heat's on.
It transcends a label. It's a story of two human beings that are in love; get over the fact that it's two men, that's the point.
Most
of the time you don't even know they're there. Now, that's the scary
thing. It's really strange and invading, but I'm still working it all
out. I try to not let it bother me. I really try and find the humour in
all of it. And if I want to swim naked in my pool, I'm still going to do
it. I certainly don't want to feel that I have to change everything in
my life that I do to cater to them. I just won't let it happen.
It's not a disease. It's not contagious. They should understand that it's a story of pure love. They don't have to be a hero. They don't have to be brave like us. I guess a little bit of maturity is being asked for because society has been immature in the past. That's about it.
I had a dear friend of mine, who's my uncle. He's a big guy. He goes to bare-knuckle fighting out in the Nevada desert, and he's gay.
I
don't have a technique. I've never been a believer in having one set
technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At
the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That's the one
thing that guides me through every decision professionally. Socially,
also. That's my technique. Yeah, you read through the script 100 times.
I guess I have little characteristics about myself. Sometimes, most
often than not, once we start shooting I won't look at the script at all
until we finished shooting. It's kind of like it's been imprinted in my
head during rehearsals. You just let it go.
It was an opportunity not to take acting too seriously. We obviously weren't taking Casanova too seriously. Essentially we were borrowing his name and his legend and just having fun with it.
We had a good sense of humor about it, because we knew what we were holding on to and how it was going to exceed expectations and [labels]. We weren't running around naked in chaps swinging pink guns in the air. We knew that, and we found it funny that no one else did.
I still find it personally disappointing that people kind of go out of their way to voice their disgust or their opinions against the ways in which two people choose to love one another. I think that's really unfortunate.
I'm
the worst auditioner, really, really bad. I mean, you're being judged
and I'm just so aware of it that it consumes me. I can't relax, I'm tied
in knots, so the voice is very taut and tense. You're so aware that
you're acting 'cause you're sitting across from this lady with a piece
of paper who's going, ''I'm. Going. To. Shoot. You. If. You. Don't.
Blah, blah, blah,'' in this emotionless voice. It's foul. I hate it.
It was an opportunity to tell a story that hadn't been put on the screen. The character is so tragic. I really enjoyed how little words he had to express his battle and express his inability to love.
Aren't we at the stage these days when it just doesn't ... matter? It's a story of love and it's a story between two people. If people can't get over that and just accept it as a story, then that's their problem. I'm big enough and brave enough to do it.
People
just love to bash LA. People say it's so pretentious, so arrogant, so
this and that. But it's truly a wonderful place. You don't have to go to
the places where that stuff goes on. You don't have to go to Beverly
Hills, you don't have to go to the parties. You can live up in the Lower
Canyon and live such a perfectly healthy, beautiful, fun life with all
your friends. You can drive two hours one way and be at the Joshua Tree
desert, two hours one way you're skiing at Big Bear. Sure, it can get
full-on and that's why it's good to get out. But it's too easy just to
say, Nup, I hate it. I'm not living there anymore.
It was one of about 60 television interviews I completed in that sitting and it sounds like you landed the dud.
If you just be safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.
I
learned respect for women, and patience. You grow up with all those
women around you...you learn to wait your turn. -about growing up with
his mom and his sisters.
It was pretty clear that this story hadn't been put to screen. It's not very often that you come across a story that hasn't been made.
I
never studied acting in Australia. I never had an empty stage and black
pajamas to run around and express myself.
The movie's already exceeded any expectations I had. I think pleasing Annie Proulx, the writer, and getting her nod of approval was the biggest success for me, for us.
Bronte is scaring me at the moment. I feel like the paparazzi are going to kick me out of that city.
The
challenge was to capture the stillness of him. I have kind of
semi-frantic, nervous energy. Harnassing that was something I thought
I'd have to work out. Shooting in the wilderness, the stillness became
like this innate quality. -on his character "Ennis" in
Brokeback Mountain (2005).
We certainly weren't going out of our way to make a change in the world. We didn't make the film for any kind of political movement. We never expected to change people's minds; but if it does affect people's hearts, if perceptions can get altered, that's a good thing.
I flipped through his journals and then it was (history) out the window, ... We were making it into a romp. We wanted to have a clean slate and just have fun.
Brooklyn
seems to me the closest thing in America to Europe. The neighbors and
locals are beautiful people. It's like a village.
She's
my soul mate and we couldn't love each other any more than we do
already. We're like two peas in a pod. - On girlfriend and the mother of
his daughter, 'Michelle Williams'
Matilda
is adorable, and beautifully observant and wise. Michelle an I love her
so much. Becoming a father exceeds all my expectations. It's the most
remarkable experience I've ever had - it's marvelous.
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