I tend to read ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ online, and I go to the website for the BBC. I am a junkie when it comes to the news. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
Having a son has made it all the more important for me to stay in close contact with my family in Texas and Arkansas, whom I know full well voted for Trump. Though I didn’t, and have deep problems with this administration and many of them don’t. But I’m not going to let that cut the tie from my son to his own history and family. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
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. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
Have I always agreed with my Southern, military, Mormon family? Absolutely not. Have we always figured out how to get along? Yes! At the point at which politics supersedes the family and community, we’ve got a real problem. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
My mom would watch me giving speeches on TV and she’d call and say, ‘I don’t know who this son is.’ Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
Our brothers and sisters in the trans community, they showed up to every one of our marriage marches when it wasn’t necessarily what they needed. So we have to be there for them, use our lessons learned in the marriage fight – how to win when it’s difficult, how to change minds that are difficult to change. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in the country, they can imagine that all the way to marriage? When I first experienced a crush, in Texas, there was maybe a second of butterflies that were then dammed in by the fear of what that meant. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers – they’ve completely accepted me. Dustin Lance Black Read Quote
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 Read Quote
