Black Quote by Meshach Taylor

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

— Ice Cube

The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.

— Omar Epps

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

— Terry Crews

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place,…

— Tom Shales

I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not…

— Taraji P. Henson

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

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

— Katherine Heigl

(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

— Rainn Wilson

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

— James Mangold

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it…

— Christian Slater

The problem is, if you make a film that has certain implications in the story, and then you don't follow through, it's a cop…

— Ken Loach