A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having to explain or fight for every decision. You're allowed to create. — 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
