Life Is Too Short For A Half-rack.

My Dad's Gay Experiences Really Had A Very Positive Influence On Me And My Straight Relationships - How To Better Accept All The Weirdness And Ambiguity And Ups And Downs And Paradoxes. I Knew From The Beginning I Was Writing About Love.

We Never Did Things As We Were Supposed To Do. That Was Part Of Our Ethic. We Did What Felt Right To Us, Not What Someone Told Us We Should Do.

As A Son Of A Man Who Pretended To Be One Thing For 33 Years Of My Life And Then Was Another Thing, The Questions Of 'what Is Real' And 'what Is Not Real' Are Very Blurrily Vivid To Me.

No One Leaves The Edit Room Thinking, 'yeah, I Nailed That One!' Everyone I Know Goes Into Their First Premiere Or Their First Screening Thinking, 'i Screwed Up So Bad. I'm Sorry, I Messed Up.' It's Just A Real Common Feeling.

L.a. Is So Isolated And Unhip In A Way; It Gives You Room To Figure Out Who You Are And Explore More Personal Stuff.