Dustin Lance Black

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.

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.