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" I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span. "
Lee Daniels
Attention
Hollywood
Attention Span
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" America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for. "
Lee Daniels
Fickle
Go
Know
" I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. "
Lee Daniels
Job
Me
Mom
" The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film. "
Lee Daniels
Rules
Serve
Ego
" I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene. "
Lee Daniels
American
Three
Style
" 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
" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "
Lee Daniels
Always
You
Special
" My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. "
Lee Daniels
Instagram
Tell
Followers
" 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
" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "
Lee Daniels
Up
Speak
Rarely
" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "
Lee Daniels
Love
Fun
Famous
" When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. "
Lee Daniels
Where
You
Church
" I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. "
Lee Daniels
Hands-On
Up
Because
" I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. "
Lee Daniels
Mutual
Protective
Them
" 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
" 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've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. "
Lee Daniels
She
Few
Inspiration
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Eye
Strong
Partner
" I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth. "
Lee Daniels
Wait
You
Truth
" I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills. "
Lee Daniels
Beverly Hills
Over
Got
" I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me. "
Lee Daniels
Everything
Live
Love
" 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
" Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. "
Lee Daniels
America
Inspired
Most
" 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
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Wish
You
Easy
" 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
" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "
Lee Daniels
Black
Mission
Know
" I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. "
Lee Daniels
Camera
People
Trust
" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "
Lee Daniels
Man
Always
Bills
" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "
Lee Daniels
Want
Bad
Acting
" To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play. "
Lee Daniels
Furniture
You
World