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. – 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
The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. – 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’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
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. – 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
My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs – she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. – Lee Daniels
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that’s slow. But with TV, it’s hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It’s a different pace. – 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 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
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
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. – Lee Daniels
