44 Dustin Lance Black Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dustin Lance Black

American Director

Born: Jun 10, 1974

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I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement. Dustin Lance Black

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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. Dustin Lance Black

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My mom had grown up in the South. Louisiana and Georgia. She had been deeply religious. Baptist, then Mormon. She had worked for the U.S. military. She had voted for Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior. Dustin Lance Black

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

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When I was in my twenties, I would always read my horoscope. Dustin Lance Black

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I'm drawn to making films that in some way move the social conversation. Dustin Lance Black

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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

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father. Dustin Lance Black

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I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader. Dustin Lance Black

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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. Dustin Lance Black

Eventually my courageous Mom did something we do all too rarely. She got on a plane and she came to see me in L.A. - this place where we'd always been told sinners lived. She came to see my gay friends. Dustin Lance Black

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy. Dustin Lance Black

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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