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" I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. "

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" By 1988, I was living in New York myself. "

" One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling. "

" I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance. "

" For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear. "

" It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker. "

" I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same. "

" Being an artist is in part an act of rupture. "

" 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 always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort. "

" I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on. "

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" Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job. "

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" I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time. "

" New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood. "

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" As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. "

" A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear. "

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