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" Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it. "

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" In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!' "

" When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material. "

" I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves. "

" I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples. "

" SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place. "

" Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over. "

" Relationships are so important to all of us. "

" People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on. "

Being Different

" I haven't got muscles, and I don't live in West Hollywood. "

" I think it is a burden... that we constantly realise that there isn't that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful. "

" I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them? "

" My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!' "

" If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all. "

" In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they're trying to do. "

" My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make. "

" I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening. "

" The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems. "

" As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything. "

" You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives. "

" I was not a happy teenager in the slightest. "

" I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large. "

" I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story. "

" Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is. "