Quotes from Dustin Lance Black

My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old, and so, we were raising her as much as she was raising us.

Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and build families. We want our kids to have their lives be a little bit better than what we've had.

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.

I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's tough to then go and direct it because I know all the real people.

I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'

One of the great things about being married to my husband, who is also an impossible dreamer, is that we just do things.

I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.

I probably saw 'When Harry Met Sally' for the first time in college.

I have incredibly sensitive hearing. I often hear people talking about me. Sometimes it's amazing and sometimes you hear gossip you'd rather not.

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

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

I think people in the U.K. best know me as the guy who will take their picture when they run into Tom Daley. But I'm also his husband and the dad to our child.

Tom and I have never claimed to be perfect, whatever that means in a relationship. We're not trying to be anyone's example. We're living our lives and building our family and doing what we love.

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.

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.

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

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

Just like my mom, when things get bad, I get quiet. The worse they get, the more silent I become.

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

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

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

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

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.