Lee Daniels Quotes
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I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
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My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.
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I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
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I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.
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While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.'
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I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.
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I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
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I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
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I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.
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I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.
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America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.
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I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.
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Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
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It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.
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I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'
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I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.
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I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.
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My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
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I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
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The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.
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I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.