Andrew Haigh Quotes

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

As a person who doesn't identify as straight, any love song I write is contextualized by a queer identity.

I hope 'Hellcat' is picked up again in years to come by people who realize just how queer it is: not just in its characters but its sensibility.

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.

I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

I think, almost, the film industry thinks that by making gay characters super masculine, it's an attempt at saying being gay is OK if you act like straight people. I don't think we should just have gay characters who are 100 percent femme, either. I just think it's about that mix and creating more diverse gay characters.

I get a real thrill for being 'overtly queer' in my aesthetic.

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

Nothing really prevented me from showing Catman as bi, but it's how I thought of him.

The work that needs to be done now is to diversify the picture of LGBTQ people so that people can see that we come from all races, different genders; we have trans people.

I don't want to make an 'Animal House.' I'm not interested in making 'Ghost Busters.'

I think that there's not always been queer person of color representation in pop and so I'm making the most of it because that is who I am.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

For some reason, being gay can be such a sad thing in media, so it's really cool to see someone like me who doesn't look like, I guess, the stereotypical gay guy.

I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to.

Bob Fosse, even though he wasn't gay. He was certainly queer and had a huge effect on the 'Hedwig' film, as did Hal Ashby and Robert Altman, who had a weird butch queer feeling about him. His films almost flirted with camp but in an extremely realistic acting way.