And love Quote by Quentin Tarantino

I love '12 Years a Slave.' I really like 'Django Unchained.' I want to make clear that I'm not saying these movies should not…

— Cord Jefferson

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln…

— Jamie Foxx

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and…

— Joe Morton

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim…

— Elizabeth Nunez

The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long…

— Lonnie Bunch

The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

— Spike Lee

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view…

— Jeffrey Wright

“All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave?…

— Rachel Haimowitz