I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

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

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

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

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

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

I think I tend to feel discomfort more when I anticipate or arrive upon moments in which I need to be careful. As a gay person, there's the fear of violence, and we're not making that up.