They're The Darkest People I Know, Comedians.

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.

In A Perfect World, I Would Love To Do One Play For Every Three Movies.

Don't Listen To What Anybody Says Except The People Who Encourage You.

'brokeback Mountain' Takes All Your Conceptions Of America, And The Western, And Cowboys, And Sexuality, And Love, And It Stirs Them All Up.

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.