English - Director | March 7, 1973 -
We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.
Andrew Haigh
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If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.
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We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.
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We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs something.
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It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.
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I like going to a new environment with open eyes.
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I'm happy to do gay material, and I'm gay, and I'm not embarrassed about it, but it's nice not being limited to only doing gay material.
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We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.
ChangeDreamsWrinklesThinkYou
SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.
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A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
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People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.
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My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people don't usually assume I'm gay, so you have to keep coming out. And if you say you've got a film with a gay subject matter, you can sometimes see people's eyes going, 'Oh! OK!'
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