Black Quote by Richard Pryor

I don't see how I ever could have thought that having an all-white crew for a special about race would be OK.

— Brett Gelman

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

If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.

— Justin Lin

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

— Chadwick Boseman

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

— Melvin Van Peebles

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

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of…

— Mario Van Peebles

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

— John Lee Hancock

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch…

— Idris Elba

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky…

— Amandla Stenberg

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

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that…

— Tyrese Gibson