Quotes from Jake Gyllenhaal

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

I can't make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that's the first question I ask myself, always, is, 'What is this movie about?'

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.

In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.

When you have the opportunity to choose projects, inevitably you start being moved towards the things that you're moved by, right? And that changes over time, as we change, right?

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

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

I started to realize I love study, I love the study of human behavior.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.