Words matter. These are the best Peter Paige Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.
I don’t think we set out to make it the most intense ‘Fosters’ finale ever, but I kind of think that’s what we ended up with.
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.
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.
I’m interested in the ways that we’re all broken.
I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
Gay adults start as gay kids… Now they’ve got to figure out how to be with each other and be with family, friends, and the communities at school.
It’s a lot harder to write a story that’s compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it’s fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.
You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don’t get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.
I believe that young kids have agency and can make a difference in the world.
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.
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.
We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
I’m on Twitter every single week. It’s sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.
We prioritize access to guns to such a degree that we are traumatizing an entire generation of children.
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.
