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" Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think. "
Lee Daniels
Need
Media
Think
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" I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas. "
Lee Daniels
Tell
I Am
Black
" I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream. "
Lee Daniels
I Am
Perspective
Up
" My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me. "
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Me
Reading
Experience
" 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.' "
Lee Daniels
Think
Black
Angry
" When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me. "
Lee Daniels
Talking
Me
People
" I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. "
Lee Daniels
Now And Then
Vegan
Lamb
" I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. "
Lee Daniels
Butler
Literally
Break
" I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me. "
Lee Daniels
Me
Love
Believe
" My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. "
Lee Daniels
Life
Work
Live
" I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. "
Lee Daniels
Started
Videos
Because
" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "
Lee Daniels
Life
Growing Up
Growing
" I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. "
Lee Daniels
Name
Me
Film
" I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. "
Lee Daniels
Look
People
Black
" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "
Lee Daniels
Color
Story
Think
" I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think. "
Lee Daniels
People
Partner
Truth
" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "
Lee Daniels
Love
Fun
Famous
" 'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. "
Lee Daniels
Empire
Expected
Me
" I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day. "
Lee Daniels
Great
Write
Day
" I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. "
Lee Daniels
Never
Movie
Network
" When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story. "
Lee Daniels
Story
Moving
Ego
" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "
Lee Daniels
Black
Mission
Know
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Believe
I Believe
Know
" Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to. "
Lee Daniels
Places
Two
White
" I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual. "
Lee Daniels
Art
Question
Always
" As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. "
Lee Daniels
You
Slow
Rhythm
" I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people. "
Lee Daniels
Black
Me
People
" I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. "
Lee Daniels
Hands-On
Up
Because
" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "
Lee Daniels
Some
Cell
Cell Phone
" I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras. "
Lee Daniels
Bug
Talents
Two
" The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. "
Lee Daniels
Different
Board
Television