Dee Rees Quotes
'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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'Organized mayhem,' Nick commented, 'seems to be the chief preoccupation of intelligent species everywhere.'
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Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.
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The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.
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He made some plays, we came up short on defense. That's the bottom line. There are no excuses. I'm not blaming the coaches or blaming the calls.
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Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
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Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.
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'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
