I Promise That, One Day, Everything's Going

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.

What Made Me Most Courageous Was That I Realized I Had To Try To Let Go Of That Stereotype I Had In My Mind, That Bit Of Homophobia, And Try For A Second To Be Vulnerable And Sensitive. It Was F**kin' Hard, Man. I Succeeded Only For Milliseconds.

To Me Donnie Darko Was About Adolescence. And About How, As Soon As You Start To Grow Up And You Sort Of Move Out Into The World, You Realize Everything Is So Trippy. That Anything Can Be Anything.

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, "wait, Who Am I?" You Could Feel The Business, In Particular, Kind Of Go "he's All Right, Let's Go Over Here." I Started To Go, "wait, I Know Why I Love To Do This." I Think I Got Off Track In Why I Love To Do It.

It's Amazing How The World Has Changed Because, At That Time [2005], A Lot Of Actors Didn't Want To Play A Gay Role.