There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

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.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.