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.

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Criticism
  • Abuse

• Life doesn't stop with football.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Football

• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Bad
  • Turn
  • Habits

• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Success
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Parents
  • Well

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• 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.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Looking

• So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Often

• 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.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • She
  • Player

• Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Brother
  • Honesty
  • Twin

• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• 'Organized mayhem,' Nick commented, 'seems to be the chief preoccupation of intelligent species everywhere.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Intelligent

• Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Dad

• Whenever a person repeats the same behavior pattern over and over, you can be certain that the person derives many emotional benefits from it.

  

  Al Siebert
  • Behavior
  • Benefits
  • Pattern

• They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

  

  Louise Jameson
  • Rude

• If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Music
  • Future

• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Hand

• Desine qua propter novitate exterritus ipsaexpuere ex animo rationem, sed magis acriiudicio perpende, et si tibi vera videntur,dede manus, aut, si falsum est, accingere contra.

  

  Lucretius

• 'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.

  

  Dee Rees