Ava DuVernay

[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so…

— Ava DuVernay

For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic…

— Ava DuVernay

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

— Ava DuVernay

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

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's…

— Ava DuVernay

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors…

— Ava DuVernay

I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're…

— Ava DuVernay

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

— Ava DuVernay

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

— Ava DuVernay

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

— Ava DuVernay

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

— Ava DuVernay

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

— Ava DuVernay

Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be…

— Ava DuVernay

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations…

— Ava DuVernay

I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It…

— Ava DuVernay

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this…

— Ava DuVernay

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

— Ava DuVernay

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the…

— Ava DuVernay

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design…

— Ava DuVernay

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

— Ava DuVernay

Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time…

— Ava DuVernay

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff…

— Ava DuVernay

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to…

— Ava DuVernay

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus…

— Ava DuVernay