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

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the….

I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotio….

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment..

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid..

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves..

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself..

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear..

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could….

I'm a version of the same person..

I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do yo….

I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've ha….

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compas….

There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was….

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New….

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain..

So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to ….

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me..

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart..

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal..

I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job a….