Jake Gyllenhaal.

I Admire Actors and Artists Who Devote Just as Much Time to Their Life as They Do to Their Work.

In a Perfect World, I Would Love to Do One Play for Every Three Movies.

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.

Coming from a Family Where My Mom Is a Writer, I Just Respond to How People Speak.

Some Movies You Fall a Step Behind and Some You Stay in the Same Place, Make the Same Choices. and Then Sometimes There Are People Who Know More Than You but Show You, and That’s the Maximum You Can Hope for Doing That with Someone Who Says, I Like You for What You Are, and I Want You to Be in My Picture. I Didn’t Have to Fake It or Put on a Mask All the Resources I Had Inside Me Were More Than Adequate. I Don’t Want to Pretend to Be Something … I’m Not Pretending Any More to Fit Somebody’s Mold. That’s a Long Winded Statement but Why Not Do What You Really Think, Even If It’s a Mistake?

We Live in a Sad Time Where Actors Are Politicians and Politicians Are Actors.

I Think My Strength Is to Do a Take All the Way Through. I Am Definitely Not Someone Who Can Do a Sprint. Maybe I Am Not That Smart, but It Takes Me a While to Find the Moment, and I Like to Be Pushed Toward It.

When You Grow up There Is Some Compromising to Do. but Compromising Creative Instinct Is Never Good.

My Parents Were Relatively Progressive in Their Spiritual Beliefs: My Father Is Christian and My Mother Is Jewish. on My 13Th Birthday, They Thought It Was Important for Me to Experience a Rite of Passage, an Entrance into Manhood, and the Consensus Was That We Would Do Something for the Good of the Community, Some Charitable Work a Barmitzvah Like Act, Without the Typical Trappings. so We Went to a Homeless Shelter and We Did Some Work There and Then I Had the Party the Celebration There.

My Dad Descends from the Swedish Gyllenhaal Family, a Noble Lineage That My Ancestor Nils Gunnarsson Haal Established in the 17Th Century and Which Has Been Very Influential in Sweden for a Long Time. My Great Grandfather Emigrated to the USA. but I See Myself as a Jew Since My Mother Is a Russian Jewish New Yorker.