Nia DaCosta

In the real world, we create monsters of men all the time.

— Nia DaCosta

I always knew I wanted to do genre films. I love horrors and thrillers. But I didn't think I'd be doing a…

— Nia DaCosta

This is one of the biggest reasons I'm a writer: I love creating worlds but also discovering worlds and getting into the…

— Nia DaCosta

I think the thing about systemic oppression is that inclusion is purposeful, but so is exclusion.

— Nia DaCosta

I want to know more about Captain Marvel. Who is she? What are her fears? What drives her? How do you actually…

— Nia DaCosta

Every character that I write is kind of an anti-heroine in a way. Not because I'm like, I need to write an…

— Nia DaCosta

For me, 'Candyman' has always been about telling stories and how they are important to keep telling because they will hopefully stop…

— Nia DaCosta

We should be able to get better, even if it's in the public eye - which a lot of our counterparts who…

— Nia DaCosta

A lot of my film education when I was younger was basically whatever VHS tapes were in my house, and also the…

— Nia DaCosta

I think all horror movies are about trauma in one way or another, but I would love for there to be more…

— Nia DaCosta

Eventually when 'Candyman' became a possibility, I pitched on it and got the job, so it was really wonderfully straightforward and so,…

— Nia DaCosta

Little Woods' came out of a desire to want to worry about people who are not like me and not where I'm…

— Nia DaCosta

I remember being in North Dakota and meeting women who stayed in bed and watched 'Law & Order: SVU' all day, waiting…

— Nia DaCosta

There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of…

— Nia DaCosta

For me, Westerns are about how people are on a frontier, between society and the wild, and what being in that middle…

— Nia DaCosta

Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in…

— Nia DaCosta