Making a movie is not easy, not something you do for fun. To me at least. — 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
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
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
Films that take place in the past reproduce the aesthetics of the past. I question the aesthetics of the past. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I like to call the photography in film the technology of racism. Like, you have this bizarre idea of racism, and you… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
My relationship to photography and film is knowledge production, and it's how to engage with the world in a way that approximates… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There are a variety of different ways in which we experience trauma as human beings without seeing it. I guess because cinema's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There's something about cinema which encourages overexposure. I think maybe because it's not us in the image, that we're willing to see… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I intuitively knew about the problem with cinema and you're like, 'Oh, that's why. There's this thing called 'black representational space' that… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I do think people who have really inspired me in cinema have been fearless and uncompromising auteurs, people whose vision I like… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The cinema is incredibly macaronic and incredibly deep. The moving potential is beyond what we really even understand because it's working on… — 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
From the moment you show someone making a decision on film, you judge that moment and that starts to build your point… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There's this preconception that people don't want to see interesting things. Because this film gets rejected, or this film isn't embraced, it's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
When you film someone, you're constantly searching for meaning or representational moments, right? These moments are in dialogue with moments you've seen… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
It's an interesting thing - that film fills in for history - because I think it's both one of the most beautiful… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
In documentary, you're directing with your camera even if you're not saying anything. So I was familiar with working with a person… — 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
