To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of the black experience, because of the history of the black image. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
We don't often truly consider the embeddedness of black folks in the American imaginary. America would not exist in its current form without the long history of the black experience, of course; and what that means, very viscerally, on the… — 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
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
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
I realised that I wasn't going to the NBA when I broke my foot my second time. — RaMell Ross Copy Share
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
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
The thing about 'Nickel Boys' is its a film that is more intelligent than its maker. — RaMell Ross Copy Share
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
The South is my home and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain. — RaMell Ross Copy Share
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
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
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
I'm less interested in cinema, and more interested in the experience of cinema approaching the experience of reality. — RaMell Ross Copy Share
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
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
