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

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

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

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.

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 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.

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

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.