Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

It appears to me as a great joke, but one which will educate the public and thus reduce the number of bigots.

I feel like biopics are so difficult to get around.

I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I started out with V Shantaram. But my favourite director has been Gulzar, with whom I did intelligent cinema in movies like 'Khushboo,' 'Kinara' and 'Parichay.'

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders.

The federal government has no business in restricting basic human rights based on sexual orientation, and I am ready to protect equality at every turn in Congress.

I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.

Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.

I don't think we should be stuck to only loving people based on what they look like.

For a homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he's good at what he does. You know, he's got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take 'em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends - not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

People who know me know I'm not a racist.

I married an Asian. I have eight biracial children, therefore I'm quite certain that I'm the last person that could be called a racist.

I oppose discrimination against homosexuals, but I do not support them, either.

I'm lucky enough to live in London, which is a boiling pot of every kind of language and background and demographic and sexuality and gender, and yet most of what we're seeing in the cinema is not reflective of that.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

But it's different in England. We have different players from different races, even in the lower leagues. They don't have that in some places abroad.