American - Actor | December 24, 1959 -
I like to show the grey area in all my characters.
Lee Daniels
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I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.
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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.
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When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
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At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
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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.
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
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I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.
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The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.
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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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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.
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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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