Cinema Quote by RaMell Ross

Cinema hasn't necessarily given that agency to people of color's perspectives. We haven't allowed for whatever that power is from the silver screen to…

— RaMell Ross

I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban…

— Steven Caple Jr

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power…

— Miranda Otto

I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music.…

— Arthur Jafa

The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very…

— Arthur Jafa

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This…

— Lav Diaz

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie…

— Jim Brown

There's something about cinema which encourages overexposure. I think maybe because it's not us in the image, that we're willing to see the worst…

— RaMell Ross

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying…

— Jasmila Zbanic

I think Black cinema is thought of in small terms. That's where most of the problems come from. When there's a film that has…

— Rick Famuyiwa

We all are born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we…

— Roger Ebert

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just…

— Kevin Spacey