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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what gives me more pleasure: watching my story unfold or going in and watching a room full of black people talking for me and writing words for black people.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
- Grey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to show the grey area in all my characters.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
- Bills
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.
- Dynasty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
- My Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020