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I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Away Characters Create Differently Inspiration Just Live Maybe Meaningful People Something Stories Take Tell Them Themselves Think Want Watch World

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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Binary Certain Certain Way Clubs Comfortable Culture Felt First Going Jeans Just Learning Lesbian Like Neither Out Realized Recreation Space Started Things Those Turtleneck Very Way

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Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Alice Come Creatively Heroes Influences Literary Most Walker World Writers

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Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Eyes People Roll Stories

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You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Everyone Life Me My Own Own Person You Your

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I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Abuse Came Definitely Had Intervention Late Life Never Out Parents Physically I Came

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Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Awards Better Lack Make Our Screen Statement Worse

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New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Anonymity Judgment New New York Offers People Themselves Without York

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For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Affirmation Alice Audrey Authors Books Censored Could Experiences Lord Me Read Source Terms Thing Walker Watch Weird Weird Thing Were Where Who Wrote

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I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Burning Like Paris

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 7th, 1977

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