Black Quote by Val Kilmer

I love telling the experience of a black male in America, but modern, not always having to go back to a period piece to…

— Michael B. Jordan

The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a…

— Rza

I think we're used to the black filmmaker coming in and making the all-black subject matter. Especially at Sundance, they're looking for that. It's…

— Steven Caple Jr

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American…

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

— Tracie Thoms

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of…

— Misha Green

There's an audience and market for depictions of Black life that are as broad and as deep as any other depictions of people's lives.

— Cord Jefferson

I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and…

— Kelela

The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very…

— Arthur Jafa

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

— Kevin Young

Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.

— Roger Ross Williams