Able Quote by Luke Ford

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

— Shefali Shah

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy…

— Justin Simien

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and…

— Neal Adams

I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.

— Brigid Brannagh

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

— Nicole Byer

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

— Jim Morrison

Under Todd Haimes' leadership, Roundabout created a black-box theater whose sole mission was to house premieres by writers who are just starting out and…

— Stephen Karam

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

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above…

— John Carpenter

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of…

— Brian Eno

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to…

— Joe Morton