Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.