American - Actor | December 24, 1959 -
I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.
Lee Daniels
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I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
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I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
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My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.
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As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.
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I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.
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America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.
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I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
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I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
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Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
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