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" I think art breaks down otherness. "
Dee Rees
Art
I Think
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" I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea. "
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" I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write. "
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" Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. "
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" You can't be limited by your own experience. "
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" I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics. "
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" We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented. "
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" You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look. "
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" I'm interested in characters and relationships. "
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" The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that. "
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" My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me. "
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" When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself. "
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" I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country. "
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Country
Nashville
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" I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about. "
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" Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management. "
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" History informs where we are and how we got here. "
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Got
" Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines. "
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" Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties. "
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" You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear. "
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You
" There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. "
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Black
Media
People
" Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now. "
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Us
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Pulse
" For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.' "
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" I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. "
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" I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. "
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" For kids who are struggling, who are of faith, just reconciling yourself to the fact that God loves you, accepts you for who you are, is a big step in the healing, especially when your biological family is unaccepting of you. "
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" 'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience. "
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" Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes. "
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" I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on. "
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" There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you. "
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Say
" It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds. "
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" I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child. "
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