I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.
Making the choice to cast someone in a lead role is a big one. You don't want to squander your opportunity.
I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
