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 told, a subjective style. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake. ”

To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. You can be gay and abstinent. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act. ”

Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No. ”

Too many of my heroes have been cut down, but do I want security guards? No. I've been offered them in the past. But the more you present yourself as someone afraid of being attacked, the more people see you as someone to attack. ”

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