Lee Daniels

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.

I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.