A. Kevin Quotes

One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

Some people say you have to be a Christian to be saved. I had to stop being Christian to be saved.

I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.

I was raped. That was a hard thing to write about. I never owned that part of it. Guys don't look at themselves as being raped. We're not raised that way.

Tony Kushner has said that Larry [Kramer] thinks everyone always has to agree with him.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.

I'm persona non grata at the New Yorker.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning."

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

The technical reason why remastering is valuable is because, up to around the late 90s, there was this endpoint called zero, and you couldn't get louder than zero.

There is a clear link between protecting your car and home and protecting your life. So life insurance was a logical addition to the AA's range.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

I say what other people won't.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.