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I love Jennifer Connelly.
Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.
I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.
Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.
There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake.
When I was in my twenties, I would always read my horoscope.
I probably saw 'When Harry Met Sally' for the first time in college.
Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.
Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.
My mom achieved so much more than the doctors said she ever would. I miss her.
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family.
I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.
I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.
Directing was liberating and intimidating. It's something I've always wanted to do.
I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day.
I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.
The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.
The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.
I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.
I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: 'I will rise above my station.'
For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.
You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.
Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T.
Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.
The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.
The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers - they've completely accepted me.
One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do things.
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.
It's 'When We Rise,' not 'When Gay People Rise.' It's about how everyone benefits when we lift up any one group in this country.
I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.
People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.
And the film that I've seen a million times is 'When Harry Met Sally' with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and directed by Rob Reiner.
My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'
Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.
We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.
I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'
I have incredibly sensitive hearing. I often hear people talking about me. Sometimes it's amazing and sometimes you hear gossip you'd rather not.