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Lee Daniels Quotes

American - Actor | December 24, 1959 -

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.

Intelligence People Think Media Down

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

Life Believe You Know I Believe

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.

Back Go Know Movies Editing Finish

I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

Perspective Experience I Am World Up

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.

Myself Story Camera Trying Acting

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

Work Fear Fearful

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.

World You Furniture Play Got Asking

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

People Me Think Unexpected Go Want

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

Break Literally Butler

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.

People Democracy Something About

I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

I Am Black Tell Here Going Just

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.

Family Age Time Parents People More

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