When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
From Lee Daniels
I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.
I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.
When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
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