Black Quote by Rick Famuyiwa

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which…

— Idris Elba

'Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film'…

— Joe Morton

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When…

— Kevin Hart

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy…

— Justin Simien

A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white…

— Shonda Rhimes

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 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

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

— Melvin Van Peebles

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

— Rick Famuyiwa

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

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

Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to…

— John Boorman