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“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.”

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That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

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I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day.

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I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's…

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Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T.

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I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.

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For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.

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In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have…

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You can't keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That's not America. I dare say that's not even a good…

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There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we've…

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Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the…

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I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.

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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…

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