Dee Rees Quotes

• I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently, or thing about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.

  Dee Rees

  Meaningful, Inspiration, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.

  Dee Rees

  Pain, Writing, Desire

  Source: highlighthollywood.com

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• Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

  Dee Rees

  Writing, Character, Rooms

  "Interview with Dee Rees – Writer and Director of Pariah". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.

  Dee Rees

  Girl, Baseball, Black And White

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• Ultimately, the people [who] are going to help you make your film are the people who believe in you and believe in the story. And as long as you stick to your guns, hopefully what you come out with will be what you imagined.

  Dee Rees

  Believe, Gun, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

  Dee Rees

  Writing, Realization, Favors

  "Interview with Dee Rees – Writer and Director of Pariah". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 27, 2011.

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• I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

  Dee Rees

  Actors, Pieces, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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 a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

  Dee Rees

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• The only advice I can give those who want to sell thei films 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

  Believe, Mean, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school because in the '80, it was the thing to do. 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

  Writing, School, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

  Dee Rees

  People, Giving, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

  Dee Rees

  Giving, Anonymity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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