It's really difficult for me to sit and watch anything that I do because I always think about what's there, and what there could be to make it even better.
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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 think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.
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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.
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There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake.
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My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.'
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Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.
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Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.
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One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do things.