I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.”