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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. "
Lee Daniels
I Am
Black
Doing
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" 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. "
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" I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see. "
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Reflection
" I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances. "
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" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "
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" 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. "
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Three
Style
" With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before. "
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Time
" Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be. "
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Up
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" 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. "
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Believe
I Believe
Know
" I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. "
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Arts
School
High School
" Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to. "
Lee Daniels
Places
Two
White
" Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. "
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Want
Bad
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" 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. "
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Money
Me
End
" Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. "
Lee Daniels
Some
Cell
Cell Phone
" 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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Bug
Talents
Two
" 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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Finish
Movies
Know
" I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. "
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Hands-On
Up
Because
" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "
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Always
You
Special
" I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. "
Lee Daniels
She
Few
Inspiration
" At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. "
Lee Daniels
Surviving
Making Money
Money
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Casting
Talent
Minority
" I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. "
Lee Daniels
Life
Growing Up
Growing
" 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
" What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen. "
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Before
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" 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.' "
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Rap
Love
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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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Started
Videos
Because
" 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 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've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. "
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Never
Movie
Network
" I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. "
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Me
White
Fountain
" I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. "
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Come
Film
I Think