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" I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards. "
Dee Rees
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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. "
Dee Rees
People
Live
Create
" In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has your back unconditionally and cares for you and the material and would give anything to make sure everything is OK, makes you feel so much better. It gives you a sense of security as an artist. "
Dee Rees
Feel
Security
You
" To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody. "
Dee Rees
You
Play
Me
" I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville. "
Dee Rees
Family
Me
Think
" Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. "
Dee Rees
Saying
You
Room
" 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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Write
Anything
Thought
" New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment. "
Dee Rees
Without
New York
New
" Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes. "
Dee Rees
Roll
Stories
People
" I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon. "
Dee Rees
White
Dragon
Lived
" 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. "
Dee Rees
Heights
Three
New
" I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts. "
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Lot
Feel
Like
" 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. "
Dee Rees
Audience
Trying
You
" A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You're allowed to create. "
Dee Rees
Create
Decision
Fight
" The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take. "
Dee Rees
Yourself
You
Surround Yourself
" To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for. "
Dee Rees
You
Artist
Audience
" 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. "
Dee Rees
Start
Enough
Feeling
" 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. "
Dee Rees
Saying
Inspire
Say
" In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about. "
Dee Rees
New York
Parents
Me
" Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way. "
Dee Rees
Change
Art
Culture
" I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible. "
Dee Rees
Hard
Heels
Like
" People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination. "
Dee Rees
Water
People
Complacency
" Our country is pathologically violent. "
Dee Rees
Violent
Our
Country
" I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world. "
Dee Rees
Short
Philosophy
Poetry
" 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. "
Dee Rees
Care
Kind
Tell
" 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. "
Dee Rees
People
You
Create
" I still want to do features, but on my own terms. "
Dee Rees
Want
Still
Own
" I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down. "
Dee Rees
Home
Family
Impossible
" There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. "
Dee Rees
Black
Media
People
" I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally. "
Dee Rees
Resources
You
History
" I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention. "
Dee Rees
Never
Life
Late