If asked whether the experience of making
Brokeback Mountain had changed his perspective on anything in particular, Jake Gyllenhaal would say, "You know, it's very hard to make this experience into a
literal one, or the movie into a
literal one. I think it's about the struggles of two people dealing with intimacy, ultimately. But what I learned from the movie was that you don't have this ideal idea of love, like this thing that you see in movies all the time... We don't usually talk about that in movies, and when we do, it's with a guy and a girl. But this was like putting it in an environment where we had never seen it before. If I learned anything, I think it's [that] working with Ang Lee, there's a real benevolence in everything he does. I think you walk out of this film feeling kind of devastated in a lot of ways, but also feeling a real sense of benevolence. And I think the process of making the film produced that, too."
=aside= Paul