Black Quote by Lance Reddick Download Open image “Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.” — Lance Reddick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Cinema Historical Nothing Will Wire
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
'Black cinema' I don't even know what that means. It's just cinema. When Paul Thomas Anderson makes a movie, we don't just say it's… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed. — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
Cinema was haywire in the 1980s. It was a funny period in films then. — Karan Kapoor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think Black cinema is thought of in small terms. That's where most of the problems come from. When there's a film that has… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
The American 'slave genre' of films has picked up some good and bad cliches over the years and, unfortunately, 'The Underground Railroad' seems to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem. — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Black films and television are growing and getting the recognition... and the opportunities. — Demetrius Shipp, Jr Copy Share Image
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
