About Quote by Malcolm D. Lee

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

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and…

— Salim Akil

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent.…

— Ishmael Reed

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

— Chadwick Boseman

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

— Wes Craven

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

There are so many slices to the African-American experience. I mean, I have the whole ghetto pedigree. My mom was in jail, I didn't…

— Salim Akil

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it…

— Tim Reid

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to…

— Wes Craven

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington