Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this… — 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
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
I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It… — 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
I'm not to say that my male counterparts do, but certainly, it feels very special to me because I know that so… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 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
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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 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 period. Traditional… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. — 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 he can't… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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 Image
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