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" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "
Lee Daniels
Color
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" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "
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Black
Mission
Know
" 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
" I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me. "
Lee Daniels
Good
Me
People
" 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
" My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. "
Lee Daniels
My Life
Music
Me
" 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
" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "
Lee Daniels
Always
You
Special
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Me
Fight
Lie
" 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 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 didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world. "
Lee Daniels
World
African-American
Alone
" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "
Lee Daniels
Love
Fun
Famous
" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "
Lee Daniels
Man
Always
Bills
" 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
" My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. "
Lee Daniels
Cop
Jobs
Bank
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Know
War
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
" While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' "
Lee Daniels
Rap
Love
I Am
" 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 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
" Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. "
Lee Daniels
Up
Speak
Rarely
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
She
Mom
Home
" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "
Lee Daniels
Want
My Soul
Hollywood
" 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
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Black
Story
Think
" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "
Lee Daniels
Surviving
Making Money
Money
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Bug
Talents
Two
" 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 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
" America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for. "
Lee Daniels
Fickle
Go
Know