Cinema Quote by Dee Rees Download Open image “Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.” — Dee Rees ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Could Filmmaking Give Up Way Writing
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious. — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills… — Brendan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a language where you empathise with human situations. Unless you have empathy for characters, you shouldn't be a filmmaker. — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important. — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I… — Ben Drew 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
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
