My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she'd call and say, 'I don't know who this son is.' — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
My mom achieved so much more than the doctors said she ever would. I miss her. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Eventually my courageous Mom did something we do all too rarely. She got on a plane and she came to see me… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and… — 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
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
