Artist Quote by Alexander Payne

For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the…

— Brian Cox

I loved films like 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'Annie Hall,' but these were very specific, white Manhattan experiences. You don't see a single…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much…

— Robert Wyatt

“New York is in black & white, Los Angeles is in living color.”

— Jess Buzo

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

— Angela Bassett

The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in…

— Billy Eichner

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no.…

— Julian Casablancas

I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood…

— John Boyega

Cinema hasn't necessarily given that agency to people of color's perspectives. We haven't allowed for whatever that power is from the silver screen to…

— RaMell Ross

I used to always say - and I think a lot of artists think of it this way - that when you see a…

— Kerry James Marshall

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going…

— Robert Redford

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius