The Black Belt is the home of our social construction - it is from here that we are everything America has permitted… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I can't think of any better tribute to the Dozier School Boys than for their story, which is about their literal visceral… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Cinema hasn't necessarily given that agency to people of color's perspectives. We haven't allowed for whatever that power is from the silver… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I get to make art at my own pace. I get to think big and move slow. There's nothing better than that. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at least most… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
What a thing of free will to be in the air and to have that much control over one's directionality, up, down, left, right… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
You know, I feel like when we're watching films, typically, the films do the thinking for you, one could say. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I realised that I wasn't going to the NBA when I broke my foot my second time. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Film peddles in one blip in the sea of emotional relationships when it's literally the content of the whole ocean. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic. It's on this weird carousel that's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Nickel Boys' is its a film that is more intelligent than its maker. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I don't think you need a lot of money to make a film that's cinematic and deserves to be in theaters, but people feel… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The South is my home and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white culture look… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Micro-looking processes that are human are what I was interested in. How can you use the camera to mime the way that we look?… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Imagine something where you are just provided with the truth, which is something that everyone deserves. It's insane that's a line like that has… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I'm less interested in cinema, and more interested in the experience of cinema approaching the experience of reality. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers have a… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Films typically peddle in meaning with big things and make connections between events. They don't peddle in images in the same way which in… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
