Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.

The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film and play stand side by side -- you get the advantage of more intimacy in the film's close-ups, and the advantage of live rock onstage.

When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls,

When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.