Lee Daniels Quotes
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Lee Daniels Quotes & Sayings
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I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
— 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 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
I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
— Lee Daniels
I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.
— 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
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
So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.
— Tommy Lee
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
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 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
I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.
— 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
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 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 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
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 was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
— 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
