Agenda Quote by Sanaa Lathan

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script…

— Ashley Walters

It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective…

— Sanaa Lathan

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and…

— Salim Akil

What I loved about [The Other Woman] movie was the same thing. It was three women who would never have come together for any…

— Leslie Mann

Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different…

— Deon Taylor

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection…

— Ava DuVernay

For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters…

— Zoe Kravitz

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women -…

— Amandla Stenberg

Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those…

— Ruby Dee

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the…

— Zoe Kravitz

The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.

— George A. Romero