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Ava DuVernay notes that old ways of making movies are falling apart, opening doors for new creators. She says streaming services help bring inclusive voices, especially from black women, to bigger audiences. She also says she learned on set, ignored the glass ceiling, and now uses resources that match her imagination.

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I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

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Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

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All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

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More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and…

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It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

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I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk…

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Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around…

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When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease…

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The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per…

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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…

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I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to…

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Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of…

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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer…

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I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting…

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I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my…

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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for…

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We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film…

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There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is…

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When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease…

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There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist.…

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I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff…

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I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

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I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

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All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's…

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I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and…

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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing…

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A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made…

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I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next…

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Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of…

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I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some…

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It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're…

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Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is…

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I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on…

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I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist…

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For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic…

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We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

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…

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

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?…

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…

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

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…

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found…

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

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…

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to…

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.