Black Quote by Ava DuVernay

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

— Arthur Jafa

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and…

— Ava DuVernay

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a…

— Mick Jagger

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American…

— Nafessa Williams

We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're teaching a…

— Nia DaCosta

I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or…

— Kari Skogland

I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's…

— Steven Caple Jr

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

— Whoopi Goldberg

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black…

— Duane Jones

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins