I searched so hard for a part that was so complex

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.