My Father Was The Center

Fighting For Identity Is Something That Is Very Much In My Life.

I Try To Be A Partygoer. But At Some Point I Don't Know Why I'm Doing It And Fall Back. I've Been Using Repression, The Struggle Between Behaving As A Social Animal. You're Seeking To Be Honest With Your Free Will, Less Conflict. I Think That's An Important Subject With Me. That's Who I Am, How I Was Brought Up. I Think I Use That A Lot. I Mistrust Everything I Think. Things You Think You Can Trust, Believe In, Or Hang On To, Changes. That's The Essence Of Life.

To Me, Ennis Stands For The Conservative Side Of America. He's The Biggest Homophobe In The Whole Movie - Culturally And Psychologically - But By The Time He Admits His Feelings, It's Too Late.

When You Go For Something Because You're Curious About It, You Get Psyched Up About The Chance Of Getting Into It. It's Like An Actor Meets A Role, And You Slip Into That Body And See What Happens, To Experience Certain Conditions, To Adopt A Certain Character. Even Shooting Is A Study Of The Character. I Think Both The Character And The Actor, And Eventually The Filmmaker - Myself - Are Finding A Way To Accept Their Environment And Being Accepted And Feel Comfortable Of Themselves.

I'm Just A Pretty Regular Dad.