If you're in a situation where something horrible is happening, you're closing your eyes. You're looking away. You're doing things to try… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I would say something like, 'Mom I want to be a flutist that plays underwater,' and she'd reply with, 'son, you can… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
One issue that I have with a lot of films is that they're so strongly 'about something' that it forecloses a person's… — 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… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There's something about cinema which encourages overexposure. I think maybe because it's not us in the image, that we're willing to see… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Being a liberated documentarian is less about making specific decisions and more about ignoring traditional modes of making. I don't care about… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Making a movie is not easy, not something you do for fun. To me at least. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Faith is something, of course, that exists because you don't need evidence for it by faith itself. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Making art in which you're learning is something I always strive towards. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in what Black subjectivity truly looks like. It's not something that can ever be absolute or final. And… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
In documentary, you're directing with your camera even if you're not saying anything. So I was familiar with working with a person… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
You can be doing something and you have your narrative in your head, but that only means that to you - there's… — 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
