Dustin Lance Black

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

— Dustin Lance Black

I'm drawn to making films that in some way move the social conversation.

— Dustin Lance Black

The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.

— Dustin Lance Black

Tolerance is something you don't like, but put up with.

— Dustin Lance Black

I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.

— Dustin Lance Black

My mom achieved so much more than the doctors said she ever would. I miss her.

— Dustin Lance Black

I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family.

— Dustin Lance Black

I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.

— Dustin Lance Black

We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.

— Dustin Lance Black

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

You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.

— 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'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

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

I think for too many decades, the politicians have driven a wedge between the gay and lesbian communities and the religious communities…

— Dustin Lance Black

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…

— Dustin Lance Black

I've never encountered homophobia in casting from the studios or networks - not once, not ever. Where you encounter it is with…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn't necessarily…

— Dustin Lance Black

Having a son has made it all the more important for me to stay in close contact with my family in Texas…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar…

— Dustin Lance Black

I was very lucky to hear the story of Harvey Milk, it was life-saving for me. I wanted to share it in…

— Dustin Lance Black

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised…

— Dustin Lance Black

For people who have fertility issues - and certainly gay men have fertility issues - there's several options for having a child…

— 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

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

— Dustin Lance Black

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be…

— Dustin Lance Black

Tom and I have never claimed to be perfect, whatever that means in a relationship. We're not trying to be anyone's example.…

— Dustin Lance Black

'Milk' had to be a financial success, following the success of 'Brokeback Mountain.' It had to make money so studios would develop…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

— 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

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

— Dustin Lance Black

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

— 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

I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut…

— Dustin Lance Black

I think people in the U.K. best know me as the guy who will take their picture when they run into Tom…

— 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