” Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” Without community events like NewFest, I don’t think we’d have a queer cinema in America. “
” I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood. “
” I grew up thinking there was something called ‘independent film,’ which I wouldn’t necessarily have had access to if there wasn’t Sundance. “
” I think it’s interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. “
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