I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm… — 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
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
Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus… — 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
I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many… — 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
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
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
By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this… — 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
As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m… — 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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