“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksFilmGuyBlackWhiteCareersDoubtDegreesBenefitsBallsMalesClockShirtsHatsProvenAngleBlack WomenT ShirtCompetentIncompetentWoodyTrajectoryClipBenefit Of The DoubtThermal Author:Dee Rees
“I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.” PeopleFeelsFirstsIdeasWould BeGirlBlackWhiteIdentityBaseballDressesRelatedHeelsBlack And WhiteCapsBaseball Caps Author:Dee Rees
