Dee Rees Quotes
I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.
Quotes to Explore
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.
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We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.
