> **”Before The Butler,” Daniels recently told The Film Stage, “my mother was like, ‘You are embarrassing us at church.'” Daniels recalls her saying, “‘I want you to make movies like Tyler Perry. Can you just make a Tyler Perry movie? He’s my favorite filmmaker.'”**
> Daniels’ choice of projects before The Butler varied widely, but often veered toward the erotically thrilling (Monster’s Ball) and the plain erotic (The Paperboy). “I’m your son,” he recalled telling his mother, asking for understanding. “‘But I like Tyler Perry movies,” she replied. “It really fucked me up. And so for my mother and the church, I made The Butler, which I think was probably the most refrained I’ve ever been, ever.”
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> **”Before The Butler,” Daniels recently told The Film Stage, “my mother was like, ‘You are embarrassing us at church.'” Daniels recalls her saying, “‘I want you to make movies like Tyler Perry. Can you just make a Tyler Perry movie? He’s my favorite filmmaker.'”**
> Daniels’ choice of projects before The Butler varied widely, but often veered toward the erotically thrilling (Monster’s Ball) and the plain erotic (The Paperboy). “I’m your son,” he recalled telling his mother, asking for understanding. “‘But I like Tyler Perry movies,” she replied. “It really fucked me up. And so for my mother and the church, I made The Butler, which I think was probably the most refrained I’ve ever been, ever.”