Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it,… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give those who want to sell thei films is to surround yourself with people who are friends… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
The best thing in the world is to put two characters who hate each other side by side. Or put two people… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the people [who] are going to help you make your film are the people who believe in you and believe in… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child. — Dee Rees Copy Share
I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea. — Dee Rees Copy Share
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. — Dee Rees Copy Share
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and… — Dee Rees Copy Share
I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else. — Dee Rees Copy Share
For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was… — Dee Rees Copy Share
When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of… — Dee Rees Copy Share
We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down. — Dee Rees Copy Share
Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. — Dee Rees Copy Share
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse… — Dee Rees Copy Share
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 -… — Dee Rees Copy Share
Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be… — Dee Rees Copy Share
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