I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person. Jake Gyllenhaal More Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal More Quotes From Jake Gyllenhaal On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you. Jake Gyllenhaal buddhist spiritual believe You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me. Jake Gyllenhaal team practice running As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together. Jake Gyllenhaal together opportunity people As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time. Jake Gyllenhaal actors matter people I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I don't think at the time I really understood what was happening. I think I was in a space where I was like: there are all these things. I was shooting all these takes with David, and I was just confused, as a person, and as an actor feeling a little too big for my britches and that this thing was happening and then also not having enough skill yet, and technique to know exactly where I was, and know about the character. Jake Gyllenhaal confused character thinking When I look at that now, all I think about is what a master [David Fincher] I was working with, and all of the things I could have watched and learned - and I didn't. And how, now, in my career, how I would love to have a ton of takes. Jake Gyllenhaal careers looks thinking I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game. Jake Gyllenhaal buddhism character thinking The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now. Jake Gyllenhaal preparation understanding jobs There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when you've worked with the actors that he's worked with, on stage in particular, but also in film. Jake Gyllenhaal actors intellectual character I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. Jake Gyllenhaal manipulation emotion directors We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of earlier on. In my belief. Jake Gyllenhaal echoes belief firsts Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation. Jake Gyllenhaal together long ideas Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening. Jake Gyllenhaal listening feelings thinking I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate. Jake Gyllenhaal communicate actors real We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets very close in preproduction and rehearsals. And then he allows his actors - I don't think scared of actors, but I think he's scared of getting in on the scenes he's watching. The space he's watching. So he just totally disconnects from you while you're shooting. Jake Gyllenhaal different space thinking I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets. Jake Gyllenhaal regret jobs thinking 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. Jake Gyllenhaal real love-you character We live in a world now where, I think, what we value is usually monetary and is able to be quantified by money as opposed to what we individually actually love, and I think Dan is sort of attacking all that. Jake Gyllenhaal entertainment He is a pretty wacky character. Jake Gyllenhaal entertainment ... There are tons of times throughout the movie where you're laughing, it's just an awkward journey through a pretty seemingly ordinary situation. 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