Dee Rees Quotes

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I like to produce my own movies.

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.