If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Of course everyone should have the right to get married. But I think people need to remember sometimes that we don't all… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
You can't expect to connect with everybody, and that's all right. The more I make films, I'm learning that you don't have… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
My straight friends accept I'm gay but they forget that some people don't. Even now, if I go into a party, people… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
In the early stages of being out, you meet all these people from all kinds of backgrounds, and the one thing you… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
'Looking' was always a niche show for a niche within a niche. It's a gay-themed show, so you're not going to get… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I think the gay community is made up of so many little different things, different parts, different people... I think that can… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I like that. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I've traveled a fair amount around the country and visited many states. It's amazing that Oregon is so different from Idaho; even though Portland… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
