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

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

" Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. "

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

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

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

" Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. "

" Movies are romantic fantasies. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

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

" I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood. "

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

" Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema. "

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

" My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight. "

" 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. "

" I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them. "

" I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "