I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Even in my town, even in San Francisco, thousands of gay men were arrested usually using entrapment techniques every single year for sexual behavior between consenting adults. That continued well into the 1970s until it was finally decriminalized in 1976, I believe.

Film really is a collaborative art.

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

Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

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