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Film Quotes by Ava DuVernay
- 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 as…
- I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second…
- Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
- I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a…
- All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
- Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
- I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
- When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job…
- You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
- All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are…
- I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see…
- Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny…
- Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat…
More Film Quotes
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different… — Amy Adams
- I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which… — Amy Adams
- I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or… — Amy Adams