I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.