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 better than most, I think. That's me and Tom. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

What's beautiful about the journey of surrogacy is that relationship you build with your surrogate, when it's done in places with good law. These aren't women you stop speaking to once your child is born, this is someone who's part of your family. ”

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. ”

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people. ”