Black Quote by Arthur Jafa

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 a black…

— Ava DuVernay

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

— Roger Ross Williams

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The…

— Kat Graham

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a…

— Mick Jagger

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

— Rita Moreno

All producers and directors want to make good films.

— Naga Chaitanya

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

— Curtis Hanson