Great Quote by Jason Johnson

Bitter Root' is like a combination of 'Ghost Busters' and 'Blade,' with the steampunk energy of 'Attack on Titan' and the family drama of…

— Jason Johnson

I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through the mincing…

— David Olusoga

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each…

— Greg Norman

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

What excited me to do 'Thugs of Hindostan' was to make a film in the large format about a character, who is not inherently…

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was…

— Seth Green

There is an obsession with black tragedy. If you see a black movie, it's typically historical, and it tends to deal with our pain.…

— Justin Simien

When I heard that 'Roots' was being remade, my first response was, 'Seriously?' I was a bit skeptical. Then I had an audition in…

— Malachi Kirby

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

— Albert Einstein

Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different…

— Deon Taylor

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to…

— Adrian Younge

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a…

— Jim Brown