I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story,…

- Lee Daniels

My dream is to make a Superman hero that's gay.

- Lee Daniels

I don't think anyone likes anything of mine. At the end of the day, I love it, but just because I love it... I happen to love broccoli, not a lot of …

- 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 diff…

- Lee Daniels

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

- Lee Daniels

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for anothe…

- Lee Daniels

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

- Lee Daniels

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me, because people really think they have me pegged. I want to do something different, like maybe do a …

- Lee Daniels

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 en…

- Lee Daniels