Actor Quote by Jim Brown

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

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

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

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that…

— Tyrese Gibson

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a…

— Romany Malco

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

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

When I go to the movies, I'm expected to identify with all of the characters, and most of them are white. But when you…

— Kerry James Marshall

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The…

— Kevin Hart