it's about what you hide and what you show.

If you listen to Sam Phillips and [Big Star producer] Jim Dickinson, their use of language is so beautiful,

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fascinating ? it was a mirror-image kind of experience.

I'm basically making the same film over and over again,

Time of Your Life .

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