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 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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I think we're a working man's band.
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I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.
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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.
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It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.
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I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
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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.
