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Dee Rees Quotes

American - Director | February 7, 1977 -

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.

Feel Easy Now Personal Will More

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.

Power Saying Inspire You Want Kind

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that.

Friendship People Friends You Okay

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

Easy Hard Things Hard Always Things

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

Time Art Think Place Always I Think

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.

Child People Parent You Want Okay

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

Yourself People You Look Expect

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

Amazing Voices Different Been Writer

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

Hand Always Over Going Direct Else

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.

Family Home Impossible You Down Go

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.'

Funny Time Experience People Writing

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

Women People Color Black Media

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