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

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

" 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. "

" I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years. "

" As a gay person, my life has been marginalized. "

" I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things. "

" 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 find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make. "

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

" You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself. "

" I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.' "

" Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself. "

" Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning? "

" I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. "

" Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member. "

" I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. "

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

" Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York. "

" Movies are romantic fantasies. "

" Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level. "

" I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories. "

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

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

" I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films. "

" I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way. "

" You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. "

" What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life. "

" There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age. "

" As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. "