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

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

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.

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

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.

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.