The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

You become the movie you are making.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.