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“I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we…” quote by Dee Rees — Download Open image

“I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.”

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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.

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I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

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I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and…

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

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My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was…

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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…

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You can't be limited by your own experience.

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We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

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

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