I was going to study business administration at …– Dee Rees
I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.
I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics.
I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.
It’s a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know – we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
For kids who are struggling, who are of faith, just reconciling yourself to the fact that God loves you, accepts you for who you are,
In some communities it is – like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends.
There’s a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are
I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.
A producer has to want you. And if the producer trusts you and asks for your vision, it frees you up so much, not having
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