Black Quote by Spike Lee

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We…

— Michael Ealy

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

— Justin Simien

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

We have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because we have…

— Keke Palmer

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

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I…

— Trip Lee

What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty.…

— August Wilson

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a…

— David Oyelowo

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

— Melvin Van Peebles

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do…

— Wesley Morris