Agents Quote by Zoe Kravitz

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

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

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to…

— Joe Morton

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that…

— Tyrese Gibson

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black…

— Duane Jones

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

— Roger Ross Williams

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

I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The…

— Kevin Hart

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

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

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

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