When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.
From Lee Daniels
Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.
Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.
To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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