John Stagliano

A typical Buttman movie--there is no crew, and Stagliano does the editing himself--costs around $8,000 to make and can earn him more than $250,000.

[on announcing publicly that he was HIV-positive] Even if I'd wanted to, I couldn't have kept it secret. People talk all the time in this business, so it was only a matter of time before it came out. I figured it was better to tell people myself than have rumors going around. positive.