Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.