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Why make a biopic if it's not...

Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person or this event?

Dustin Lance Black 9 quotes

You're either Mormon or South...

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

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Whenever you write script wit...

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

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I never wanted to be a writer...

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

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For Coca-Cola to take a pro-d...

For Coca-Cola to take a pro-diversity, pro-equality stance creates a lot of goodwill in the LGBT community.

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I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrot...

I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.

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If you're a history buff, you...

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.

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It's an incredible education ...

It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

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If Harvey [Milk] had not been...

If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

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To me, you couldn't write a c...

To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.

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People from pre-sexual revolu...

People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are drawn to the same sex. But it's a part of who you are, an identity, not an act.

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I don't have to sympathize or...

I don't have to sympathize or empathize with a human being in order to be able to portray them. I mean, some of the greatest roles that actors have been able to play haven't been the most endearing on screen.

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Through my political work in ...

Through my political work in D.C., and having done 'Milk' I got to know a lot of gay octogenarians. They are lovely and they like to tell their stories, and I like hearing them.

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I was about 15 years old when...

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

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Children are raised by single...

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.

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I'm always interested in gett...

I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

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I say to my pupils, 'You can ...

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

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I think that our view of love...

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

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Anyone who says a movie about...

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

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My father, my Mormon father, ...

My father, my Mormon father, took off when I was a young man and, or actually very young, I was like six years old, so a young boy.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....