Author Profile
Dustin Lance Black
1974 • American • Director
61
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Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesI think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.— Dustin Lance Black
As a Southerner and as a Mormon you approach life in this aspirational way: 'I will rise above my station.'— 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
My problem is always the number of hours in a day, not the number of things I want to do.— 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
We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.— 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 work hard in 'Hoover.'— Dustin Lance Black
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 and go, 'You've passed your deadline.'— Dustin Lance Black
Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.— 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 down to size a little bit.— 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
Here's the thing with 'When Harry Met Sally,' it doesn't matter how many times you watch it, it's always interesting, and you're always identifying with a different scene in the movie - at least I am.— Dustin Lance Black
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.— Dustin Lance Black
I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.— 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 for their own benefit, and I think it's time to start to broach those divides.— Dustin Lance Black
Growing up Mormon, you learn how to be very, very organized, and it's a passionate group. I mean, in that way, it's prepared me very well for Hollywood.— Dustin Lance Black
You know, growing up Mormon, I always got the sense that it was hard for the leaders of the church to feel like they were outside of Christianity. I think, you know Mormon people believe that they are Christian, and a lot of people outside of the Mormon Church, you know, don't see them that way.— Dustin Lance Black