Mr. GREG ARAKI (Filmmaker): Everything is so nuanced, and all the characters, including the coach and including the johns that Neil sleeps with as a young male prostitute, they're seen as these sort of flawed human beings, but they're all given a humanity and a depth, that they're not just these black and white kind of cardboard bad boys and good guys.
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