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“I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.”

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Robert Greenblatt, born in 1960, is an influential producer in the entertainment industry. His career spans across various domains including television and film, and he is known for his unique production style and profound insight into content. more

“I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But it's about adolescence. It's about what it feels like - this isn't meant as a criticism, but like things I didn't relate to, which were high school movies. Where I'd watch it and I'd be like, "Well, am I like the kid that nobody likes? Or am I like the person who everybody [likes]?" I couldn't [tell]. I was like quantifying, putting me in a box. "This is my personality at that age" and "I'm this kind of person" just felt like bullshit to me.”

“To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.”

World Moving Grows Realizing Growing Up Adolescence Trippy

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.”

World Want Play Actors Roles Changed Gay

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.”

Thinking Way Matter Struggle Generations Identity No Matter What Granted Younger Generation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.”

Kids Animal

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“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.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“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.”

Firsts Belief Echoes

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I always say about that movie [ Brokeback mountain], which I think maybe over time is more understood, is that this is about two people desperately looking for love. To be loved. And who were probably capable of it. And they just found it with someone of the same sex.that does not dismiss the fact that it is about, really, primarily, the first kind of very profound gay love story. Hopefully it can create an equality of an idea: that is, it's possible that you can find love anywhere.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.”

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Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

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