Melina Matsoukas

I love that denim can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Anything goes.

— Melina Matsoukas

My style is super versatile and doesn't pertain to any one category. It can be best compared to a mood ring. It…

— Melina Matsoukas

Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.

— Melina Matsoukas

The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we…

— Melina Matsoukas

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

— Melina Matsoukas

I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst.…

— Melina Matsoukas

As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could…

— Melina Matsoukas

I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before…

— Melina Matsoukas

In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt…

— Melina Matsoukas

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I…

— Melina Matsoukas

I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind.

— Melina Matsoukas

I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.

— Melina Matsoukas

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind…

— Melina Matsoukas

For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It's a…

— Melina Matsoukas

I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this…

— Melina Matsoukas

It's important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or…

— Melina Matsoukas

The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will…

— Melina Matsoukas

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

— Melina Matsoukas

Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.

— Melina Matsoukas

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

— Melina Matsoukas

I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel…

— Melina Matsoukas

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

— Melina Matsoukas