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 more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

It’s funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.

You know, it’s flattering when there’s a rumor that says I’m bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I’m open to whatever people want to call me. I’ve never really been attracted...

I wanna star in this.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

When I was in ‘Jarhead,’ I felt really good about my body, really confident,

As an actor, it’s a constant question of whether I will ever get hired again … (but) this idea is so important, and if that meant for a couple of takes I was going to...

My character’s the one that kind of initiates these sexual encounters, which to me was, like, totally foreign.

If you’re going to spend seven months of your life – for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life – doing something, I think you have to have something...

I thought Heath had broken my nose while we were filming that scene. Both Michelle and Ang kept insisting the kiss had to be more fierce, more intense, more passionate, so Heath pushed me against...

I’m at a period in my life when I’m figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love — all that big stuff. And I’m starting...

It was at a point where I realized that like I had told Sam before we started ‘I’ll throw up in the sand for you. I’m gonna do anything I can for you,’ but I...

We made out, and they had a baby.

And as an actor, you can go to those places of rage and aggression and feel those feelings, and have so much fun doing it. I think that’s also part of what the armed forces...

For me, it was hard in a different way than with Heath. Because I think Heath was kind of constantly being pushed back by Ang, pushed back into his skin, and he wanted to come...

I have a friend who is in Iraq right now and is doing a lot of good over there, restoring schools and helping democracy in a way. Do I agree with the administration and their...

This means even more to me socially than artistically. It’s just a pleasure to be a part of this movie and I can’t even believe I’ve got this for it.

As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.

I doubt that means actors are going to be stampeding to play gay cowboys or even gay roles. But they’ll be looking for material as honest and powerful as this film offers.

There’s inevitably a lot of talk about things like that,

But obviously, it means a hundred million things to other people. It’s one big question. So, naturally, people have a lot of answers.

I’m going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it....

The idea that both a film and a book could be made about waiting and boredom, and make them entertaining, was pretty extraordinary,

I had a lot of people saying to me, to my surprise, thank you for making it.

Ang Lee is fierce in his timidity, his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him. He’s frustrating and so damn wise.

If, for some reason, you could… wanna be with me heart and soul, I’ll be waiting for you at 5pm outside Chunky Cheese – The Good Girl

Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts.

I’ve had a lot of people say to me after the film, to my surprise, ‘Thank you for making it. It’s made a social impression, and that social impression to me is the aftermath of...

I thought I was a long shot, but this was a role I was going to fight for.

The sheep were interesting. They were the easiest thing. They just naturally herd, and they are naturally stupid.

You get to see the actors put through the wringer.

There have been times when I’ve been working with women and they just said, ‘Hey, I’ve faked it before. I can fake it again.’

For some reason, … I just got so angry that I had chipped my tooth … and just started hitting him and we didn’t talk for a month after that.

That was so scary, the last scene Heath and I shot together. We finally get to say to each other what we want to say, and I was really nervous because there were so many...

Ang was great … because he would set up situations and then let me and Heath decide what to do within the space Ang created.

I think something more formulaic was expected. But this movie is not just about the experience of a soldier, but also of a human being. We live in a world that is not always full...

I promise that, one day, everything’s going to be better for you.

I’m like, ‘What world am I living in?’ Aren’t movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don’t have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you...

Usually, the action’s moving so fast, you don’t get the opportunity to see the psychology, really,

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