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" 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
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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. "
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" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "
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" Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them. "
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" 'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid. "
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" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "
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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. "
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" I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. "
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" 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. "
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Wish
You
Easy
" I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back. "
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Movies
Know
" There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. "
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" 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. "
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Talents
Two
" That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious. "
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Story
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" I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. "
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Videos
Because
" I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. "
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Now And Then
Vegan
Lamb
" 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. "
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Talking
Me
People
" 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. "
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Need
Media
Think
" I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. "
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Mutual
Protective
Them
" America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for. "
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Fickle
Go
Know
" I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. "
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She
Few
Inspiration
" 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. "
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Family
Age
Time
" I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. "
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Look
People
Black
" I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. "
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Father
Servant
Slave
" 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. "
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Myself
School
" I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. "
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Work
Fear
Fearful
" 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. "
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Everything
Live
Love
" 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. "
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Casting
Talent
Minority
" I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances. "
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" '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. "
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Doing
" My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her. "
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She
Mom
Home
" Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. "
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Way
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