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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Life doesn't stop with football.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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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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Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.
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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.
