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I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

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

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

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

Basically, I just want to do a movie where I'm surrounded by women.

I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

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