It's 'When We Rise,' not 'When Gay People Rise.' It's about how everyone benefits when we lift up any one group in… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
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 Image
To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. You can be gay and abstinent. But it's a part of… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
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 Image
I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
We've got the same problems any other gay couple and any other straight couple have. But it's 90 percent great. And that's… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I have no respect for someone who lies about their sexuality. At the very least say 'no comment', just keep your personal… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio,… — 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
