A biography for Dustin Lance Blackhasn’t been written yet.
“I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.”
“The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.”
“When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet. We had just completed principal photography, and it was still basically this little film where we just really hoped someone would see it.”
“I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.”
“One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do things.”
“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 conservative value. We're all supposed to have an equal shot.”
“Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.”
“I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I took a hit of confidence and stepped away from film-making for some time.”
“Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.”
“I probably saw 'When Harry Met Sally' for the first time in college.”
“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.”
“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 heard it with Trump's rise. Here, I've heard language borrowed from the most conservative anti-gay voices in the U.S. used by some gay and lesbian people against trans people.”
“I'm industrious. Ambitious. I'm like the gay Mitt Romney... That's a terrible thing to say.”
“I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.”
“We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.”
“I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.”
“You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.”
“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 tough to then go and direct it because I know all the real people.”
“Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and build families. We want our kids to have their lives be a little bit better than what we've had.”
“I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family.”