That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
If you go to Paris, try to speak French. If you go to the South, try to speak Southern. Southern isn't stupid.… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Tom and I have never claimed to be perfect, whatever that means in a relationship. We're not trying to be anyone's example.… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes!… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
What's beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it's done in places with good… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Having a son has made it all the more important for me to stay in close contact with my family in Texas… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
Gay people are more powerful when they work with lesbians. We become more powerful when we're L, G, B and T. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
You can't keep treating people differently under the law because of their differences. That's not America. I dare say that's not even a good… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
There has been this resurgence in anti-LGBT language in the U.K. and the U.S., and the rest of the world. In the U.S. we've… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I'd say I'm not sure about Christianity, but I sure do like their Christ and the lessons about turning the other cheek, about forgiveness,… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share
