I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.