There’s always hope in ‘The Fosters.’ These are fundamentally good people who are all trying their best and making some terrible, terrible decisions, but they’re trying their best. And there’s always hope for those people. Peter Paige Read Quote
Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding? Peter Paige Read Quote
We always try to go back to character: What do they want? What are they doing? What’s in motion that they’re dealing with? When things get particularly heavy, we will take a step back and look at who has some room to have some things lighter, funnier, or sweeter happen. Peter Paige Read Quote
It’s a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that’s the way it is going to be. Peter Paige Read Quote
Something we learned from foster kids after sitting down with them to hear their stories is that so many of them are invested in social justice, and they’re all invested in making the system better for the kids behind them. Peter Paige Read Quote
We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children. Peter Paige Read Quote
There was one family drama on television when we took out ‘The Fosters’ – ‘Parenthood’. Everybody thought it sounded like a great show, but nobody thought there was a home for it. Peter Paige Read Quote
There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, ‘OK, we’re gonna do gay people; we’re gonna do queens.’ And then it’s like, ‘No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.’ Peter Paige Read Quote
I think effeminacy is something that’s really important to talk about in the context of gay media representations and in terms of the gay experience at large. Peter Paige Read Quote
