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The best thing in the world is to put two characters who hate each other side by side. Or put two people who love each other far away, so they have to reach for each other with their looks.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Away Best Characters Each Far Far Away Hate Looks Love Other People Put Reach Side Thing Two Two People Who World

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Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Art Because Change Culture Game Ideas Literature Long More Music People Personal Way

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Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Characters Coming Creatively Gay Interesting Interesting Characters Just Lifestyle Like Straight Whatever Wherever

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I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Box Check Child Get Okay Parent People Want You

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You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Expect Like Look Make People You Yourself

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I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Anything Could Get Idea Side Then Thought Write

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I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Amazing Around Been Different Lives Many Material Voices Writer

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I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Always Anyone Anyone Else Characters Direct Else Going Hand Over

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I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Back Down Exploring Family Gets Go Home How Idea Impossible Interested Land Possession Sometimes Thing Who You

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With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Adult Been Brooklyn Come Coming Experience Funny Funny Thing Had Just Like Nashville Out People Teenager Thing Thought Time Would Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 7th, 1977

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