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Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

~Lisa Cholodenko

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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.

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There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.

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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

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Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.

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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.

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L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.

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There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: June 5th, 1964

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