Actor Quote by Chadwick Boseman

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

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

Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people.

— KiKi Layne

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington

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

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't…

— Salim Akil

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

— Chadwick Boseman

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

I want to tell human stories not solely based on race. There are so many great actresses and actors that are out there, and…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity…

— Ethan Coen