I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

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

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.