I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV.
Once a movie goes out into the world, it belongs to anyone who goes to see it.
My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.
I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.
It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever. . . And you're telling me that all those years of what being gay stood for is wrong. . . and I'm a murderer. We have been so oppressed! Don't you remember how it was? Can't you see how important it is for us to love openly, without hiding and without guilt?
Man, who don't like spaghetti?