Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I'm 51. So I'm just saying, 30 years from now you're going to have a different outlook. That's what a midlife crisis is.

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.