Dee Rees : (4)

" I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in ‘The Color Purple’ was the one thing that I had. Or ‘The Watermelon Woman.’ " - Dee Rees

" 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

" I was always going to direct. I wasn’t going to hand my characters over to anyone else. " - Dee Rees

" 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