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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. "
Lee Daniels
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" My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. "
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" 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've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. "
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" 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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Servant
Slave
" 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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" I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. "
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Me
Mom
" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "
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" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "
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Love
Fun
Famous
" I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. "
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Vegan
Lamb
" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "
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Always
You
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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
I Am
" 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 want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. "
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Want
My Soul
Hollywood
" 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
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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
" 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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" Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS. "
Lee Daniels
AIDS
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" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "
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Hands
Mother
Heart
" I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day. "
Lee Daniels
Great
Write
Day
" I like to show the grey area in all my characters. "
Lee Daniels
Grey
Characters
Show
" 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. "
Lee Daniels
Need
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Think
" I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. "
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Feel
Audience
Film
" 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
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Black
" 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. "
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Black
Me
People
" '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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Black
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" I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. "
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Fear
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