Bernard shaw Quote by Ishmael Reed

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

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

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 thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself…

— Haile Gerima

I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more…

— Romany Malco

I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things…

— Flying Lotus

Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

— Roger Ross Williams

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most…

— Haile Gerima

We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore.…

— Theodore Melfi

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that they get,…

— Taylor Russell