Black Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd…

— Sam Mendes

Not many people get that chance to have multiple studios wanting you to make a movie with them.

— Tom Green

We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black…

— Ava DuVernay

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

— Arthur Jafa

I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I've only actually done one studio film. I want to be left alone.

— George A. Romero

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

I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.

— Rudy Ray Moore

In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at…

— Peter Greenaway

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but…

— Jonathan Glazer

I knew I needed to make a studio film - not for any financial reason, but because, as a filmmaker, and especially as a…

— Lexi Alexander

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able…

— Garrett Hedlund