I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have b….

It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understandin….

Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe n….

To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even ….

If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have ….

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff..

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with..

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our ge….

I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always s….

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books co….