Christianity is integral to not only the culture and black culture at large, but also the survival of black people at large. That faith, while sometimes complicated - and Christianity, of course, is complicated because it's often used to subjugate… — 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 before in films, specifically with people of color; certain types of humanizing touches or gazes. You're always confirming… — 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
