I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

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.

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

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