Dustin Lance Black Quotes

I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.

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.

I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic.

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

It was quite difficult to play the role of a scientist in 'Hasee To Phasee.'

I like movies, action movies. I definitely would be an actor in Hollywood.

I couldn't believe how big Ben Affleck's trailer was. It was like a spaceship - I remember thinking, I'd live in that.

I am interested in biographical stories. Seldom are good biopics like 'Maha Nati' being made.