I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.
Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.
Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.