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Ellen Page appeared at South by South West as a keynote speaker in support of her VICE show “Gaycation” and said coming out was positive for her life.

NPR’s Laura Sydell asked Page if she felt coming out had hurt her career and if she had noticed a difference in the way people treat her.

“I’m not in rooms where people are making decisions of who to send what to, and the truth is, I’m absolutely not focusing on it, because being in the closet hurt my career way more than being out and being happy and feeling inspired again, being able to fuse my authentic self with creative interests, and that wasn’t something I could do, and now I can make ‘Gaycation…'” Page responded.

“And I feel so in love with what I do again, and I feel so grateful for that. I think the differences I see are, ‘Oh, you’re doing this thing that’s gay and this thing that’s gay …’ And you would never even bring that up with a straight person,” Page continued. “You would not say, “Oh, you’re doing another movie where you play a straight person, are you a little worried about it?” And no judgment, I’m just saying these are the standards and this is the conversation that needs to change, you know?”