All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.