Lee Daniels

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.