I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring." — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist.… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me?… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share
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![“I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.” quote by Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2d4/ava-duvernay-4018_age_i-mean-if-this-film-age-of-trump-wasn-t_2699170.jpg)
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