There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said 'Oh, you're doing another ugly film'.

Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.