Black Quote by Ava DuVernay

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

— Pam Grier

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection…

— Ava DuVernay

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone.…

— Michael Jai White

Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black…

— Ava DuVernay

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing…

— Stephan James

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema…

— Spike Lee

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

— Rita Moreno

It is annoying that some people only see black women as role models to other black women, rather than as role models to lots…

— Lolly Adefope

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which…

— Idris Elba

“You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. (The other group just as invisible is Asian men. But at least they…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie…

— Jim Brown