The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.

It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.