The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

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.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

I'm a version of the same person.

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.