I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.
Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.
I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.
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.
For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
I'm drawn to making films that in some way move the social conversation.
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.
You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.
I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.
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 was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.
There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake.
My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.
Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T.
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.
The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers - they've completely accepted me.
My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'
Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.
Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.
The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.
To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. You can be gay and abstinent. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
When I was in my twenties, I would always read my horoscope.
People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.
Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.
