Looking at photographs of New York in 1952, you find a powerfully pre-Eisenhower era - sagging, tired, distressed - and the palette is slightly dissonant.

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'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

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Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for 'Mildred Pierce.'

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There were interesting ways that queerness could hide out and get played out pre-Stonewall. It is part of a vast history that is getting…

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It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with,…

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What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking…

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My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.

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