Able Quote by Tim Robbins

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

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

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a…

— Mick Jagger

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

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

— Drake

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most…

— Haile Gerima

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors,…

— Paula Patton

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it…

— Tim Reid

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

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