I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the… — 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
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
![“I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.” quote by Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2d4/ava-duvernay-4018_age_i-mean-if-this-film-age-of-trump-wasn-t_2699170.jpg)
![“[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.” quote by Ava DuVernay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/845/ava-duvernay-4018_built_hollywood-is-a-patriarchy-headed-by-men_308720.jpg)