American - Actor | December 24, 1959 -
The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
Lee Daniels
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I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.
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That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.
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Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.
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I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
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My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
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My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.
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My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.
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Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.
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