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You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.
— Dee Rees
Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.
— Dee Rees
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
— Dee Rees
When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.
— Dee Rees
With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'
— Dee Rees
It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.
— 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 was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.
— Dee Rees
I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.
— 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 - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.
— 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 more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it.
— Dee Rees
For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.
— Dee Rees
I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.
— Dee Rees
To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody.
— Dee Rees
For me, Sundance always felt big. It's not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen.
— Dee Rees
I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about.
— Dee Rees
The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that.
— Dee Rees
Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.
— Dee Rees
I can't put anything out that's not me.
— Dee Rees
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.
— 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
Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.
— Dee Rees
You can't be limited by your own experience.
— Dee Rees
I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.
— Dee Rees
I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.
— Dee Rees
My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.
— Dee Rees
Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.
— Dee Rees
I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.
— Dee Rees
History informs where we are and how we got here.
— Dee Rees
I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.
— Dee Rees
Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.
— Dee Rees
The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.
— Dee Rees
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
You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.
— Dee Rees
Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'
— Dee Rees
I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.
— Dee Rees
There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.
— 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 like, family group around Christmas.
— Dee Rees
'Mudbound' highlights the fact that we're still battling a lot of the same issues as we were all of those decades ago.
— Dee Rees
I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'
— Dee Rees
Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.
— Dee Rees
I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'
— Dee Rees
There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.
— Dee Rees
My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.
— Dee Rees
In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about.
— Dee Rees
I still want to do features, but on my own terms.
— Dee Rees
To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for.
— Dee Rees
Our country is pathologically violent.
— Dee Rees
For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.'
— Dee Rees
For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.
— Dee Rees
We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.
— Dee Rees
If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.
— Dee Rees
Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.
— Dee Rees
Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.
— Dee Rees
I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.
— 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 of now, now, now, now.
— Dee Rees
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
— Dee Rees
There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids.
— Dee Rees
For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.
— Dee Rees
People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.
— Dee Rees
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