As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history. — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are. — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was put a woman of color, front and center, in my movie combining a lot of themes that were… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create… — Amma Asante Copy Share Image
