'Probably because of my middle-class, white blue-collar upbringing, I would have never had the opportunity to confront some of my own fears and prejudices had I not been hungry enough to be forced to challenge myself in that way.' And for me, being a young artist and broke in Los Angeles, I was exploring my sexual identity,' he revealed to the newspaper. 'You're a lot more open to experimentation as a young man. He added that, although he ultimately decided he was straight, he was sexually open to trying new things with his own gender. 'Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavours,' he said. Straight shooting: The 42-year-old actor divorced Patricia Arquette in July