I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often… — 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
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I always go into a blocking rehearsal with an anchor, with a blocking plan. And sometimes they'll step into the room and… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good… — 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
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the… — 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
I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that… — 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
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
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is… — 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
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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