Nia DaCosta

I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

— Nia DaCosta

I like to call myself Marvel trash. Actually, my friends call me that. I will go see all the movies. Even if…

— Nia DaCosta

What's great about horror is that horror stays with you after you leave the theater. You can say every great film stays…

— Nia DaCosta

You have to be respectful of the stories you're telling. You can never use the real-world trauma as a sort of crass…

— Nia DaCosta

I am much more interested in the reality that, no matter what laws are in place, abortions will happen. Once someone decides…

— Nia DaCosta

I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country.

— Nia DaCosta

I didn't want to get stuck being seen as 'an indie filmmaker.'

— Nia DaCosta

I think Candyman is a monster, for sure. I think, in some ways, he can also be an antihero. I think he's…

— Nia DaCosta

When it's about enhancing the psychological terror, go for it.

— Nia DaCosta

I, like many women around the world, watched 'Avengers: Endgame' and had that six seconds of all the Marvel women together. And…

— Nia DaCosta

In terms of the most successful heroes, no matter how much power you have, you never really have control over yourself. That's…

— Nia DaCosta

I wanted to tell a story about women who live in the rural part of America - what their lives were like,…

— Nia DaCosta

I knew a lot about the Marvel universe in general.

— Nia DaCosta

It's always time to tell a story like 'Candyman.' Which is the big tragedy about the tale in the first place.

— Nia DaCosta

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

— Nia DaCosta

For me, I always want to make movies that have something to say.

— Nia DaCosta

Within the space of a year, I worked on three TV shows, and the first one was directed by Martin Scorsese, the…

— Nia DaCosta

I went through the 1970s in film, and I was so inspired by what I saw and by filmmakers like Scorsese, Lumet,…

— Nia DaCosta

When I was in elementary school, I thought the Candyman was a real thing that was happening to everyone, especially because it…

— Nia DaCosta

What I've had to do because I'm a woman, to protect myself - which tends to be engaging with cues like, 'What's…

— Nia DaCosta

I think body horror is really important.

— Nia DaCosta

I love big superhero movies - when they are good - and I love big worlds and scope and genre, but there…

— Nia DaCosta

Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women…

— Nia DaCosta

We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're…

— Nia DaCosta

I'm definitely interested in class and how it represents itself in our culture, and how, depending on where you live, your life…

— Nia DaCosta