Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

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.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

When we walked out of that hospital, we had a birth certificate with our names on it that said: 'Father one and father two, Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black.' And we knew our son was not only ours in our hearts but also legally and protected that way.

Dustin Lance Black
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
Dustin Lance Black

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
Dustin Lance Black

You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.

Dustin Lance Black
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
Dustin Lance Black

The octogenarians who have pictures of Hillary Clinton under their toilet-bowl covers - they've completely accepted me.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

I am hopeful that there are three or four Harvey Milks. It would be nice to have one in California and one in New York and one in Texas and Oklahoma-it would be fantastic. Maybe even one in Salt Lake City. I would like that.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

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
Dustin Lance Black

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

Dustin Lance Black
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
Dustin Lance Black

Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have bought into this lie that the highest plane of existence is whether we put an R or a D on our voter registration card. That's insanity.

Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black

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
Dustin Lance Black

I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.