I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy ….

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of character….

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 ….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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 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….

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….

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

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….