I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compassion and heart on those things, then other things will be revealed, and that's from the education that I've had from the novel.

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

I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job as a director is to cast them well and to understand what they need on set to bring the material to life.

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

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

I'm a version of the same person.

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