Hari Nef

I was romantically socialized as a gay man, and now that I am, for most intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman, I have to learn how to talk to straight men, which is the scariest thing I've ever done. ”

My experience with 'Transparent' has completely spoiled me because it was the safest, most transpositive set ever. I didn't have to worry about all the usual things - like when people have a vision of your transness that you're not comfortable with. When they don't know the correct gender pronouns by which to refer to you. ”

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn't justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not. ”

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school. ”

Whether you're a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self. ”

Whatever surgery someone wants to get is none of your business. ”

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related. ”

I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college. ”

Visibility is not, in itself, always a good thing, but when it is in the hands of those who need positive visibility, it can be. ”

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever. ”