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" I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. "
Lee Daniels
Butler
Literally
Break
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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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Me
Fight
Lie
" '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
Me
" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "
Lee Daniels
Surviving
Making Money
Money
" I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker. "
Lee Daniels
Imagination
Stretch
Any
" 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 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. "
Lee Daniels
Finish
Movies
Know
" My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. "
Lee Daniels
Instagram
Tell
Followers
" The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. "
Lee Daniels
Different
Board
Television
" I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. "
Lee Daniels
Name
Me
Film
" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "
Lee Daniels
Color
Story
Think
" My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. "
Lee Daniels
Life
Work
Live
" I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. "
Lee Daniels
Think
Better
Looking
" 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
" 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
" 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 went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. "
Lee Daniels
Arts
School
High School
" 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 don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. "
Lee Daniels
Feel
Audience
Film
" I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. "
Lee Daniels
Want
Unexpected
Think
" 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
Me
People
" I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "
Lee Daniels
Want
My Soul
Hollywood
" 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
" 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
" In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans. "
Lee Daniels
Many
Talent
Years
" 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
" My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. "
Lee Daniels
Black
Mission
Know
" 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'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. "
Lee Daniels
Tell
I Am
Black
" 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
" 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