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RaMell Ross

(1982) Film Director

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RaMell Ross is a film director.

Quick Facts About RaMell Ross

Born: May 15, 1982
Profession: Film Director

About RaMell Ross

[Wikidata] American film director... | [Wikipedia] RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker. His directorial debut, Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), earned him a Peabody Award, and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Ross directed

Quotes by RaMell Ross · Page 3

Once I learned how to make an image 'beautiful' or whatever, that became shallow, so I began to only care about meaning…

Beautiful

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I intuitively knew about the problem with cinema and you're like, 'Oh, that's why. There's this thing called 'black representational space' that…

Cinema

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The terror of the U.S. is not just in the whip. It's very much in the way the grass has been watered,…

Exist

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My email style is getting back to the person as if they just emailed, but it's been a year and I'm not…

Day

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The pursuit of truth - objective truth - is just a false pursuit.

False

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I mean, I was nominated McDonald's All-American, top 100 basketball players in the U.S. I played professionally for one year in Ireland.…

Ball player

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I'm so head over heels for the 'Dune' movies. People have praised Denis Villeneuve, and will praise Denis for the history of…

Head over heels

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If I have a superpower, it's not having been traditionally trained in anything.

Anything

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I coach and I teach, so I know how to work with people. But I still went onto YouTube and looked up…

Coach

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I think making a film and making a TV show and using images illustratively and telling the story through images is different…

Experience

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I went to church a little bit when I was growing up with my dad, mom and aunt. We didn't go every…

Church

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I mean this respectfully, but another person's priorities are not my priorities.

Another

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Christianity is integral to not only the culture and black culture at large, but also the survival of black people at large.…

Black culture

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Photography is a relative illusion and film is a literal illusion of speeding multiple images. It's something outside of our perception but…

Cinema

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Making a movie is not easy, not something you do for fun. To me at least.

Cinema

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You have politicians in the U.S. who think they know the best ways to govern communities, but they've never been in these…

Best

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Making art in which you're learning is something I always strive towards.

Always

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To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think…

Childhood

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Cinema hasn't necessarily given that agency to people of color's perspectives. We haven't allowed for whatever that power is from the silver…

Better

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I think vision is emotional.

Dreams

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I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no…

Film

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I love this phrase called 'experiential monument.' What is an experiential monument? It's like a type of history that is experiential, that…

History

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The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal…

Books

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Faith is something, of course, that exists because you don't need evidence for it by faith itself.

Course

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In documentary, you're directing with your camera even if you're not saying anything. So I was familiar with working with a person…

Cinema

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