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" 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
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" 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
" Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. "
Lee Daniels
Real
Stars
Money
" If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me. "
Lee Daniels
Money
Me
End
" I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face. "
Lee Daniels
Lost
Face
Black
" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "
Lee Daniels
Surviving
Making Money
Money
" 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'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
" There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. "
Lee Daniels
About
Something
People
" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "
Lee Daniels
Hands
Mother
Heart
" I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. "
Lee Daniels
Come
Film
I Think
" I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents. "
Lee Daniels
Family
Age
Time
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
You
Myself
School
" I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. "
Lee Daniels
Butler
Literally
Break
" 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'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
" 'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me. "
Lee Daniels
I Am
Black
Doing
" 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
" With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before. "
Lee Daniels
You
Why
Time
" 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 worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. "
Lee Daniels
Casting
Talent
Minority
" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "
Lee Daniels
Up
Speak
Rarely
" When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story. "
Lee Daniels
Try
Never
Story
" My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto. "
Lee Daniels
Gay
Early
Out
" I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. "
Lee Daniels
Life
People
I Believe
" Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. "
Lee Daniels
Agency
Way
Pay
" 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
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Me
Reading
Experience
" 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
" I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels. "
Lee Daniels
Years
Bed
Great
" 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