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.

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

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.

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

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

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

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