African american Quote by Will Packer

It's tough to get any movie made, but unless it's a movie about race or culture or ethnicity, it's becoming less and less important…

— Will Packer

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

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

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

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch,…

— John C. Reilly

You want people to go see it by the hoards. And for there to be talk of the possibility of continuing the journey and…

— Will Packer

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

— John Lee Hancock

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them…

— Roger Ebert

I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things…

— Flying Lotus

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving…

— Jesse Williams