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" I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that. "

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" We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that. "

" I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like. "

" I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities. "

" All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera. "

" It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20. "

" I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in. "

" I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were. "

" I've been really lucky with critical reaction, overall, even if my films don't often resemble each other. "

" Each production is its own experience. "

" Every actor prepares differently and to different degrees of privacy. Some want to talk everything out. Others really don't want to talk anything out - or rehearse much. "

" The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor. "

" I'll never forget watching 'I'm Not There' with Cate Blanchett, because it was the first time she saw the finished film and saw her performance in it. I was sitting next to her experiencing it vicariously through her fresh eyes and hoping she liked it. "

" With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. "

" The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema. "

" The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people. "

" My parents are very supportive and proud. "

" I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn. "

" I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something secret, something withheld, and some level of restraint. "

" Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology. "

" It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. "

" It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before. "

" I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. "

" I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent. "

" I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market. "

" I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film. "

" Films like 'The Godfather,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Klute,' 'Chinatown,' 'Network,' and 'The Parallax View': They were drawn from the genre tradition, but they dressed down the stylistic telling of those traditions and genres. "

" After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged. "

" I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire. "