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" 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. "

" Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given. "

" What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.' "

" 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. "

" Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema. "

" I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from. "

" For me, every film is actually a form of documentary. "

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

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

" All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay. "

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

" 'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater. "

" 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. "

" Every film is hard to fund. "

" You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced. "

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