'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about…

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

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

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

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

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

— Dee Rees

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

— Dee Rees

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

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

You can't be limited by your own experience.

— Dee Rees

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

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

— Dee Rees

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

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

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

For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.

— Dee Rees