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" 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. "

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" 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

" I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "

" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "

Lee Daniels

Speak

Rarely

" 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. "

" 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

End

" I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know? "

" I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels. "

" I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. "

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White

Fountain

" I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. "

" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "

" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "

" I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. "

" There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. "

" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "

" 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

People

" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "

" '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

" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "

" 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

Love

Believe

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. "

" 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. "

" My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. "

" I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. "

" '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. "

" I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. "