If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

Film really is a collaborative art.

I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

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

The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

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.