Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
From Lisa Cholodenko
I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.
Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.
Not only does Annette Bening have a really lovely, deep voice, but she's also a great articulator. I think I'm more of a mumbler.
I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.
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