Black Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

— Roger Ross Williams

We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're teaching a…

— Nia DaCosta

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

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

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a…

— Mick Jagger

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back…

— Spike Lee

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

— Rita Moreno

'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

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which…

— Idris Elba