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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.

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

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

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.

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

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

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

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

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