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If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Back Else Find Forces Go Grandmothers Histories Means Owner Rethink Slave Someone Three Where Who You Your I Can

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I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Actual Basically Commerce Construct Created Divide Economic Fiction History Makes Our Out Plain Race Resources Reveals Separate Stories Thing Think Threads Very You I Think

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Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Aware Growing Growing Up Like Many Me People Screen Up Very Were

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I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Around Day Down Enough Every Every Day Feeling Ideas Just Just Kind Kind Me More Noon Once Start Them Theme Write Writer Writes

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I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Found Get How Magazines Philosophy Poetry Send Short Short Stories Stories Them Understand World Would Wrote

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Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Business Business School Career Filmmaking General Got Grant Management Practical School Second Thought Three Worked Writing Years

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My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Berkeley Cincinnati Company First First Job Gamble Had Heights Jersey Job Jobs Maybe Me New New Jersey Pharmaceutical Realized Second Third Three Years

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Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.

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Topics: Actor Just Know Learning Lines More Need Saying Than Why

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I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Applied Asked Basically Behind Camera Commercial Dr Film Film School Gamble Get He How Insecurity Job Life Marketing More Must Nyu Out Quit Said School Selling Set Started Than Then Thought Women You I Quit

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Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Constantly Defined Each Histories Itself Moment Multitude Now Past Perpetually Pulse Reforming Steady Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 7th, 1977

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