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.

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

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

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

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

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.

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