Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal

‘Brokeback Mountain’ takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

America

Brokeback Mountain

Cowboy

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it’s from another planet, much like Terrence Malick’s movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he’s an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

Aliens

Separation

Thinking

Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends – who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me – trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.

Book

Gay

Sex

Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he’s like, “You’re my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right.” Right? “I made the decision, I’m complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you’re going to do I’m going to give you this space.” And so it was very empowering.

Giving

Mistake

Space

As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that’s, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what’s interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it’s, that’s what I mean by hard.

Believe

Mean

Real

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

Opportunity

People

Together

As an actor, I feel like I’m somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don’t want to hit it. I don’t like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

Actors

Giving

Knowing

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

Actors

Matter

People

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.

People

Real

Want

As Uta Hagen would say, there’s the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

Actors

Honest

Saws

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Admire

Aliens

Alive

America

Anchors

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Body

Book

Boxes

Brokeback Mountain

Brother

Buddhism

Calm

Care

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Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal

‘Brokeback Mountain’ takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

As an actor, I feel like I’m somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don’t want to hit it. I don’t like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

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

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.

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