Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.