During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

Film really is a collaborative art.

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.