I'm open to whatever people want to call me. Jake Gyllenhaal More Quotes by Jake Gyllenhaal More Quotes From Jake Gyllenhaal I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search." Jake Gyllenhaal trying interesting thinking I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else. Jake Gyllenhaal yelling fighting sky I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to Jake Gyllenhaal sigh-of-relief looks world Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films. Jake Gyllenhaal perspective different way Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing. Jake Gyllenhaal real brother thinking 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. Jake Gyllenhaal space mistake giving I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion. Jake Gyllenhaal mind exercise brain 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. Jake Gyllenhaal track waiting thinking I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't. Jake Gyllenhaal has-beens havens want 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. Jake Gyllenhaal buddhist art thinking I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself. Jake Gyllenhaal style I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduction - the behavioral chess. That is, learning and being humbled by and also teaching certain people certain things. I love that. As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together. Jake Gyllenhaal teaching opportunity people Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing. Jake Gyllenhaal lasts stars important Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered. Jake Gyllenhaal dumb pigs funny Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously. Jake Gyllenhaal having-a-good-time good-times belief I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person. Jake Gyllenhaal persons spiritual trying I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant. Jake Gyllenhaal fooled pregnant 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. Jake Gyllenhaal actors knowing giving I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it's one individual thing. Jake Gyllenhaal collaboration stories together I think I'm generally - fear, fear is very still, so in terms of that kind of fear - there's so many different kinds of fear, but fear is something, particularly in movies, that's interesting, because it's created by the film maker, that was created by David Fincher, that's why he's brilliant. 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