RaMell Ross

To give subjectivity to the Dozier School boys is fundamentally mind-blowing. In literature, you're allowed to write from the inside, but at…

— RaMell Ross

What a thing of free will to be in the air and to have that much control over one's directionality, up, down,…

— RaMell Ross

You know, I feel like when we're watching films, typically, the films do the thinking for you, one could say.

— RaMell Ross

I realised that I wasn't going to the NBA when I broke my foot my second time.

— RaMell Ross

Film peddles in one blip in the sea of emotional relationships when it's literally the content of the whole ocean.

— RaMell Ross

Cinema lends itself to the play between the surreal, the symbolic, the experiential, the nonsensical and the aesthetic. It's on this weird…

— RaMell Ross

The thing about 'Nickel Boys' is its a film that is more intelligent than its maker.

— RaMell Ross

I don't think you need a lot of money to make a film that's cinematic and deserves to be in theaters, but…

— RaMell Ross

The South is my home and I'm trapped in its stomach trying to get to its brain.

— RaMell Ross

Black folks aren't asked to make films about all white people. But what would have happened if we did? What would white…

— RaMell Ross

Micro-looking processes that are human are what I was interested in. How can you use the camera to mime the way that…

— RaMell Ross

Imagine something where you are just provided with the truth, which is something that everyone deserves. It's insane that's a line like…

— RaMell Ross

I'm less interested in cinema, and more interested in the experience of cinema approaching the experience of reality.

— RaMell Ross

Yeah, I think any type of filmmaking is good as an on-ramp to making films. But I will say that documentary filmmakers…

— RaMell Ross

Films typically peddle in meaning with big things and make connections between events. They don't peddle in images in the same way…

— RaMell Ross

My father was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 1950s and early 60s. We'd visit there often, what…

— RaMell Ross

Being a liberated documentarian is less about making specific decisions and more about ignoring traditional modes of making. I don't care about…

— RaMell Ross

I believe that the camera is Christian. I think it's born in western ideology. I think it fundamentally 'others.'

— RaMell Ross

I think people should digest work, not encounter it. You need to bring it in. You need to eat it.

— RaMell Ross

One of the only ways to understand truth is to synthesize every single person's point of view at the same time. And…

— RaMell Ross

I would say something like, 'Mom I want to be a flutist that plays underwater,' and she'd reply with, 'son, you can…

— RaMell Ross

I wanted to bring art world ideas into a documentary space. Every medium has its limitations, but if you would like to…

— RaMell Ross

My work will continue to engage the historic South.

— RaMell Ross

I shop at all thrift stores. I don't buy things new.

— RaMell Ross

I want to say documentary filmmakers are some of the most conscious media makers, the most empathetic, though sometimes empathy is the…

— RaMell Ross