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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Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.
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The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
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The second category of personal questions would be more relevant when I finally call it a day and find myself in a reminiscent or atavistic frame of mind. As it is, I am still on the move - and intend to be so. It is not fair to ask me to anticipate the possible answers to such 'terminal' questions. I hope my reluctance to answer these questions will be understood in the right spirit.
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I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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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.
