Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't … - Dee Rees

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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Dee Rees

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

Done, Film, Footnotes, Give, Giving, People

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Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

Character, Freeing, Process, Rooms, Writing

What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.

Amazing, Desire, Hear, Pain, Reactions, Writing

Ultimately, the people [who] are going to help you make your film are the people who believe in you and believe in the story. And as long as you stick to your guns, hopefully what you come out with will be what you imagined.

Believe, Come, Gun, Hopefully, Long, Story

I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently, or thing about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.

Character, Characters, Inspiration, Live, Maybe, Meaningful

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Actors, Come, Film, Love, Pieces, See

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