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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're 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.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

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

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.

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

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.