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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very good at thinking, 'This is the thing I should do now to help my career.' I mean, I want to keep my career going, but that's not what draws me to a story.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was not a happy teenager in the slightest.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longer you get in a relationship, the harder it becomes to confront problems.
- Hopefully
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.
- Nov 07, 2020
Relationships are so important to all of us.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.
- Cracking
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- Nov 07, 2020
No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do make films for personal reasons.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I wanted to make 'Lean on Pete' was that it wasn't about identity. For me, it's about something more essential underneath: the need to have somewhere to live, to be safe, and have someone to look after you.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't necessarily come and see a film like 'Weekend.'
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like a bit of honesty in films.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen a lot of gay-themed films that didn't really express how I see being gay at this moment in the world. There never seemed to be a kind of authentic depiction of relationships.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I like that.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on to have a history within the scope of the story rather than just popping up and then disappearing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that Paul Thomas Anderson made 'Phantom Thread.' They're about Britishness, but they're from an American perspective. And I actually think they're fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made 'Weekend,' the idea that 'Moonlight' would win the Oscar would be like, Whaaaaat? Like, that's not going to happen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people have this idea that I just lived in my place in England and never left. During 'Looking,' I was in America for four years. I've got a green card. I spend half my time there. It doesn't feel like an alien world at all.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's always interesting to me how we keep secrets from the ones we love the most. You could be so close to someone, but still there was something you can't express, you can't tell them, because it's almost too painful and too hard for you to articulate yourself, because you don't fully understand it.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the gay community is made up of so many little different things, different parts, different people... I think that can be quite hard for people. You think you've found your tribe, but actually, that isn't your tribe, and then you have to keep searching for what kind of makes sense.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you have in common is you're all gay, but then you start to realise how different your experiences actually are.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the biggest thing I struggle with. We could never hope to represent every gay person in America. There will be people who will say, 'Well, my experience of being gay isn't like that,' to which I can only say, 'That's fine.'
- Diverse
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is so diverse.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It's amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland isn't that far from Boise, it's a completely different city. Colorado is very different from Oregon. From a European perspective, I've always found that fascinating about America.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.
- Assert
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're struggling, it's easy to feel powerless until you take control of it and assert what you want. I can understand that feeling. I can understand how it feels to be alone, to not want to get help from people and to not trust people who are actually wanting the best for you. I feel like that's true for a lot of people, actually.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horses terrify me.
- Different Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Looking' was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It's a gay-themed show, so you're not going to get millions of straight people watching it - that's the inevitability of it.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like going to a new environment with open eyes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.
- Being Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, gay men fought to be seen as different, doing our own thing: This is our lives; this is what we do. Accept it. There's a conservatism that has come into the gay community: 'We're just like you, just like everyone else.'
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been some good British gay films.
- Bad People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they got divorced. And it's been part of my life.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I see someone break down in tears, I don't necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it's really warranted. I feel like a tear needs to be warranted in a movie; it needs to be earned.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really bad at knowing if something I've done is any good. I can't work it out; I can't be objective about anything I do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I don't think, at least not for most people, anyways.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I don't like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I'm essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bubbling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of, and when you leave the cinema, your mind is ablaze with different thoughts!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mainstream
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020