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I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

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

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.