"I don't want to make movies for the enemy. I want to make movies for my people"

“It’s exciting to see that process start to happen and to build a genuine trans vocabulary, because I think that so much of what people do think of as a trans vocabulary in cinema is at best a fallacy and at worst deeply harmful to trans people. This becomes an oversimplification through which we can try to articulate something to a dominant political force. But I don’t want to make movies for the enemy. I want to make movies for my people.”

Schoenbrun very much sees themselves as a person attempting to push the boundaries of trans film, in an industry that still lacks trans representation and comprehension.

“If there are only a few trans film-makers working in any kind of a space that touches Hollywood, there are even less people on the other side of the table, who are trans,” they said. “There are just not any trans people in any kind of position of power. This is a language barrier, and the things in my films that might appear incorrect or impenetrable to this audience who has the power to give me a green light, are the exact things that are going to resonate to me and my community. And doing that work is crazy.”