When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outsid….

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty..

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it..

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know..

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior..

I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I r….

I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we wouldn't consider overt….

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "….

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far m….

I wasn't really quite sure where Heath Ledger came from, and I think that's the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so e….

As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after s….

To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Pri….

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you ei….

I think that I have done work where I feel like I've challenged myself, and then what's even more confusing is I've done work where I think I've chal….

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see..

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time..

Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy..

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am..

I think I find tactile things, you know. Just the feeling of blood itself is enough for me. If you, even if it's not real blood. I mean that's enough….

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do..

Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes..