I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.

I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.