RaMell Ross

I'm a slow worker.

— RaMell Ross

I think vision is emotional.

— RaMell Ross

I had wanted to make a point-of-view film for a long time.

— RaMell Ross

Trauma - that violence ripples forever.

— RaMell Ross

I love to say 'toodles.' And 'indeed.'

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

I have an art practice, and I make art and photography and stuff.

— RaMell Ross

My work will continue to engage the historic South.

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

I sort of have a rigid sensibility. I know what I want.

— RaMell Ross

I'm relatively hard to reach because I'm just not necessarily interested in fielding calls for my entire life.

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

It's strange because big budget doesn't necessarily imply theatrical release anymore.

— RaMell Ross

I think, with the balance of personal narrative, narrative continuity, and aesthetics, I always lean into what's interesting to me.

— RaMell Ross

I'd be open to working with producers willing to challenge their beliefs about how meaning can be made.

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

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

— 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

To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of…

— RaMell Ross

I think maybe people who are in the position to continually fight for things we know to be true and factual need…

— 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

From the moment you show someone making a decision on film, you judge that moment and that starts to build your point…

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

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…

— RaMell Ross

I've always been interested in what Black subjectivity truly looks like. It's not something that can ever be absolute or final. And…

— RaMell Ross

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…

— RaMell Ross

When you film someone, you're constantly searching for meaning or representational moments, right? These moments are in dialogue with moments you've seen…

— RaMell Ross

The Black Belt is the home of our social construction - it is from here that we are everything America has permitted…

— RaMell Ross

I'm really easily moved, and I really believe, philosophically, that everything in the world exists at every point in time, in every…

— RaMell Ross

I think we naturally fight for our personal survival and for the ability to eat and do the things that can keep…

— 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

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

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross

All photographs are authored, but they just claim non-authorship.

— RaMell Ross

It's really flattering to be called an auteur, let alone given an award for it.

— RaMell Ross

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

— 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

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

— RaMell Ross

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

— RaMell Ross