Dustin Lance Black

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

— Dustin Lance Black

I watched Sean Penn, you know, bring Harvey Milk to life. I was on the set every day.

— Dustin Lance Black

I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole -…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.

— Dustin Lance Black

For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.

— Dustin Lance Black

In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we…

— Dustin Lance Black

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…

— Dustin Lance Black

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…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.

— Dustin Lance Black

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people…

— Dustin Lance Black

I'd say I'm not sure about Christianity, but I sure do like their Christ and the lessons about turning the other cheek,…

— Dustin Lance Black

I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely…

— Dustin Lance Black

And the film that I've seen a million times is 'When Harry Met Sally' with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, and directed…

— Dustin Lance Black

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

— Dustin Lance Black

I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.

— Dustin Lance Black

“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

One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do…

— Dustin Lance Black

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the…

— Dustin Lance Black

The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers - they've completely accepted me.

— Dustin Lance Black

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

— Dustin Lance Black

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black