Dee Rees Quotes
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Think and grow rich.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
