All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do… — 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
Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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
Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist.… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump]… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech.… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
In addition to that, we have a woman post-production supervisor, a woman colorist, a woman first AD, a woman production supervisor... I… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. — 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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