Kirby Dick Quotations

There are a lot of comedic elements. We hired a private investigator; she gets her man.

I think a lot of people in film and the arts themselves feel kind of helpless, and over the last three or four years have turned to their art form as a way to exert some influence.

The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.

It's important that we acknowledge the false in documentaries, The Film is Not Yet Rated.

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

The closet exists because people don't talk about it, so that people going into political careers make a calculation early on. They say to themselves, "well, the closet is under the radar, I can do this."

Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.

What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

I do think there are very few extreme right-wing gay Republicans. Although it depends how you define "extreme right-wing." They're making a political calculation.

People in New York, LA, San Francisco, they scratch their head at the concept of a gay Republican, but it really makes sense there.

There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.