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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated. — Lee Daniels

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting. — Lee Daniels

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. — Lee Daniels

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. — Lee Daniels

When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. — Lee Daniels

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. — Lee Daniels

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. — Lee Daniels

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film. — Lee Daniels

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back. — Lee Daniels

My philosophy has always been, you don't put your name in front of a movie. — Lee Daniels

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving. — Lee Daniels

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day. — Lee Daniels

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. — Lee Daniels

I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. — Lee Daniels

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. — Lee Daniels

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors. — Lee Daniels

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. — Lee Daniels

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful. — Lee Daniels

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. — Lee Daniels

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television. — Lee Daniels

My dream is to make a Superman hero that's gay. — Lee Daniels

I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. — Lee Daniels

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span. — Lee Daniels

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in. — Lee Daniels

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto. — Lee Daniels

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker. — Lee Daniels

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. — Lee Daniels

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone. — Lee Daniels

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party. — Lee Daniels

So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it. — Tommy Lee

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers. — Lee Daniels

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful. — Lee Daniels

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. — Lee Daniels

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels. — Jussie Smollett

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result. — Lee Daniels

Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. — Lee Daniels

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. — Lee Daniels

I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual. — Lee Daniels

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. — Lee Daniels

I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough. — Lee Daniels

I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know? — Lee Daniels

America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for. — Lee Daniels

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. — Lee Daniels

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. — Lee Daniels

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels. — Lee Daniels

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances. — Lee Daniels

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. — Lee Daniels

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. — Lee Daniels

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. — Lee Daniels

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. — Lee Daniels

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. — Lee Daniels

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. — Lee Daniels

I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. — Lee Daniels

I like to show the grey area in all my characters. — Lee Daniels

Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be. — Lee Daniels

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.' — Lee Daniels

I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me. — Lee Daniels

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. — Lee Daniels

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her. — Lee Daniels

I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. — Lee Daniels

It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not. — Lee Daniels

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. — Lee Daniels

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see. — Lee Daniels

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. — Lee Daniels

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization. — Lee Daniels

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. — Lee Daniels

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. — Lee Daniels

Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS. — Lee Daniels

'Shadowboxer' was based on my life. — Lee Daniels

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. — Lee Daniels

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. — Lee Daniels

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen. — Lee Daniels