'The Butler' Director Lee Daniels: 'Thank God I Didn't Kill Myself' (Q&A)

In a candid chat with THR, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker discusses his painful childhood, his circuitous path to filmmaking and his deeply personal reasons for making a film about race relations in America. Good luck trying to put Lee Daniels in a box. The 54-year-old filmmaker is a gay black man who, as a child, was physically abused by his father (a cop who was killed in the line of duty when Lee was a teen); then made a fortune as an in-home nursing entrepreneur during the early days of the A...