If you go to Paris, try to speak French. If you go to the South, try to speak Southern. Southern isn't stupid. Southern is narrative; Southern is family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first' and hand it in, much to the chagrin of the studio sometimes when they look at the contract… — 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
