When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. — Yance Ford Like Copy Share Image
I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother. — Yance Ford About Copy Share Image
I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother. — Yance Ford Like Copy Share Image
We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. — Yance Ford Criminal justice Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar. — Yance Ford Be the first Copy Share Image
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of… — Yance Ford Black family Copy Share Image
If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that. — Yance Ford Children Copy Share Image
My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind… — Yance Ford Art Copy Share Image
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. — Yance Ford America Copy Share Image
'Strong Island' is not your typical true-crime film. It's not actually about the uncovering of evidence or following leads that hadn't been… — Yance Ford Evidence Copy Share Image
Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board. — Yance Ford Examined Copy Share Image
Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. — Yance Ford Complicated Copy Share Image
Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your… — Yance Ford Art Copy Share Image
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much… — Yance Ford Gender Copy Share Image
I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough… — Yance Ford Enough Copy Share Image
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they… — Yance Ford Bad behavior Copy Share Image
Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs… — Yance Ford Children Copy Share Image
'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible… — Yance Ford Academy award Copy Share Image
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen,… — Yance Ford Amazing Copy Share Image
'Trumbo' is conventional in its structure, mixing interviews with archival footage. What I enjoyed most about the film was its liberal use… — Yance Ford Family Copy Share Image
'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really… — Yance Ford Hip hop Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work. — Yance Ford Master Copy Share Image
I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing. — Yance Ford Cold Copy Share Image
My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. — Yance Ford Hollywood Copy Share Image
What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc… — Yance Ford Country Copy Share Image
I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information. — Yance Ford Gender Copy Share Image
If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin,… — Yance Ford Excited Copy Share Image
Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap… — Yance Ford Brother Copy Share Image
What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is… — Yance Ford Help Copy Share Image
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability… — Yance Ford Ability Copy Share Image
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. — Yance Ford Buzz Copy Share Image
The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. — Yance Ford Country Copy Share Image
I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. — Yance Ford Cinema Copy Share Image
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to… — Yance Ford Family Copy Share Image
Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black… — Yance Ford America Copy Share Image
