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" I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy. "

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" I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories! "

" Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen. "

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" Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody. "

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" Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse. "

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" When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way. "

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" You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life. "