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

• 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

• The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.

  

  Clive James
  • Men
  • Strong

• Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.

  

  David Rusenko

• To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Holiday

• When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'

  

  Laurie Hernandez

• I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Trying

• '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