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Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Anybody Characters Could Filmmaking Give Them Up Way Write

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I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Act Feature Film First Had Marketing Originally Short Short Film Shot Then Tool Used Written

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Our country is pathologically violent.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Country Our Violent

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We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Against Break Dark Down Each Idea Light Need Other Skin Versus Whole

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For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.'

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Bring Emotional Inner Inner Life Life Me Much Person Really Very Wanted

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For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Character Driving Each Them Try Understand

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Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Artists Burden Characters Limits People Play Representation Roles Sometimes Struggle Take Want Work Worried

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We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Allow Basically Be Different Black Create Different Different Types Down Having People Possibilities Range Represent Showing Stop Types Write You

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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Able Different Failure Imagination Imagine Know Only Worlds Write You

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You can't be limited by your own experience.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Experience Limited Own You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 7th, 1977

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