I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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 Image
I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them,… — 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
Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard… — 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
