Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little… — 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 Image
I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
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 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
I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
