Access Quote by Ava DuVernay

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

— Ava DuVernay

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto…

— Quentin Tarantino

'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was…

— Bebe Rexha

The movies 'Dope' and 'Straight Outta Compton' blew me away. I love seeing directors and writers of color make amazing slices of pop culture.

— Hasan Minhaj

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted…

— L'Wren Scott

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days…

— Ridley Scott

My dad occupied a government position, deputy collector, in a city called Nainital, so we had access to the cinemas at any time. I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early…

— Stephen Rea

I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the…

— Mike Leigh

“In high school, I developed a new love: acting. I went to a predominantly black and Latino school in Compton and, outside of television,…

— Issa Rae

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make…

— Tom Rachman