Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
From Lee Daniels
'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.
'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.
I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.
My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.
I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me.
I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.
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