American - Director | February 7, 1977 -
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 think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
Dee Rees
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Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
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Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.
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You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.
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I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
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Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.
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New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.
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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.
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I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.
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I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.
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My dad was a cop, you know, and I grew up three houses down from people who used Confederate flags as curtains.
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I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country.
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