When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us..

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just ….

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination ….

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations.….

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde..

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so rare and pure….

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up….

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer ….

Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a….

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way..

In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to per….

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now..

In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is co….

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's ….

I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withhe….

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the ….

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not….

When I write my scripts, there's a point at which if I'm not starting to see them visually, I feel like I'm kind of cheating. So my scripts are laden….

I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more….

People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it ….

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative..