I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff.... -Dee Rees

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!

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Dee Rees is a talented director known for her work in film. She might have directed critically acclaimed movies with compelling storytelling and impactful social themes.

Dee Rees Quotes to Explore

I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!...

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around C...

It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds....

I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, an...

With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it'...

Teen Quotes to Explore

It was never my plan to be a teen idol....

As a teen, I never went on holiday, because all my summers were spent in hospital. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the hospital in question was in S...

Believe it or not, I was a very adventurous teen, and I was all about trying new things (some things never change, ha)....

Without exaggeration, hyperbole or conflict of interest, 'On My Block' is the best teen show in the history of teen shows....

I may weep inconsolably when I hold a copy of 'All I Know Now' for the first time. I just hope that everyone who reads it enjoys it and finds some com...

I think I learned 'Smoke On The Water,' then 'Eye of the Tiger,' then 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'...

I think as a teen who was thrust into the public eye pretty quickly, I got overwhelmed easily and felt constant pressure to be a certain type of perso...

I experimented as a teen, and had some hellish hairstyles - way too many perms and cheap hairspray!...

I always wanted to be independent. I worked at a few odd jobs as a teen and, when I was in my early 20s, I soon realised that I disliked unfair bosses...

I definitely was one angsty teen and I definitely went through the emo phase....