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

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.

Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

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

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'