I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something… — 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
Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the… — 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
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
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
I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at… — 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 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 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 Image
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 Image
I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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 Image
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