Wow! How did I never know you'd interviewed Cronenberg? And you got him to talk about possible bisexual leanings he has!
"I don’t think of myself as a bisexual, and certainly my obvious orientation is hetero. But even in my very first movies I was intrigued by it, interested in it, and I find it sexy, too. I mean, if it’s sexy, it’s sexy. I think that in this movie people are beginning to move beyond gender. And I don’t mean to be evasive by saying that. I really do think what happens in Crash is that the gender of whoever you’re fucking starts to be irrelevant — your own gender also."
It really got buried at Salon when it came out, in part because of the discrimination against the Crash film that he describes. I’ve been writing about and interviewing cinema subjects foreverrrr.
But anyway, I was thrilled to rediscover it. We actually found the drawings my partner Jon made first, (they were in a sketchbook, he was rearranging his bookcase!) and then I became determined to find the story. Thank you, Wayback Machine!
I think of what DC said about how “sexy is sexy” and the cinematic pleasures of seeing sex… you know, it’s all very interpretive from Kinsey spectrum. So many people have fantasies and aesthetic attractions, powerful ones, that just don’t ever translate into their partnered sexual behavior. But it doesn’t diminish their impact, and it certainly helps to cherish and accept them in oneself!
Wow! How did I never know you'd interviewed Cronenberg? And you got him to talk about possible bisexual leanings he has!
"I don’t think of myself as a bisexual, and certainly my obvious orientation is hetero. But even in my very first movies I was intrigued by it, interested in it, and I find it sexy, too. I mean, if it’s sexy, it’s sexy. I think that in this movie people are beginning to move beyond gender. And I don’t mean to be evasive by saying that. I really do think what happens in Crash is that the gender of whoever you’re fucking starts to be irrelevant — your own gender also."
That quote from him is still progressive as heck.
Non-binary?
It really got buried at Salon when it came out, in part because of the discrimination against the Crash film that he describes. I’ve been writing about and interviewing cinema subjects foreverrrr.
But anyway, I was thrilled to rediscover it. We actually found the drawings my partner Jon made first, (they were in a sketchbook, he was rearranging his bookcase!) and then I became determined to find the story. Thank you, Wayback Machine!
I think of what DC said about how “sexy is sexy” and the cinematic pleasures of seeing sex… you know, it’s all very interpretive from Kinsey spectrum. So many people have fantasies and aesthetic attractions, powerful ones, that just don’t ever translate into their partnered sexual behavior. But it doesn’t diminish their impact, and it certainly helps to cherish and accept them in oneself!
He was amazing to meet and to listen to. One of my biggest cinematic hero’s!