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 think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.

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.

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

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

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