Ava DuVernay Quotes

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• Don't wait for permission to do something creative.
• There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as…
• Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
• I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second…
• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a…
• If your dream only includes you, it's too small.
• All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
• I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
• I tell the stories that are of interest to me.
• I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.
• I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed…
• I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
• I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
• If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
• When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job…
• You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
• 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 are…
• As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not…

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