Ava DuVernay Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Black, Want, Littles

• There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girl, Reflection, Thinking

• You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

  Ava DuVernay

  Want, Film, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

• I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Age, Pieces

  Source: deadline.com

• I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Enjoy Life, Marketing

  Source: aalbc.com

• I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

  Ava DuVernay

  Issues, Female, Statistics

• All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Block, Doors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Believe, Sound

  Source: collider.com

• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

• When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. It's pretty simple really. I just dive in and start digging. Yes, I'm fortunate to know the in's and out's of a true studio-level marketing campaign. But really, anyone who is diligent and well-researched can pull it off too. Its easier for me, but it doesn't make it impossible for others.

  Ava DuVernay

  Simple, Grease, Marketing

  Source: aalbc.com

• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Needs, Locks

  "Ava Duvernay ‘My Mic Sounds Nice’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 25, 2010.

• I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Men, White

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

• I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

  Ava DuVernay

  Remember, Film, Young

  Source: collider.com

• More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  People, Together, Netflix

  Source: deadline.com

• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large percentage of films. The odds that your film will get a major campaign are dim these days. So you must find and nurture your own audience and make sure your film has a life.

  Ava DuVernay

  Done, Realizing, Film

  Source: aalbc.com

• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Thinking, Lovers

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

• I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton. In order to see the film, I had to get on the bus and travel quite a ways to get to an arthouse theater - none of which you're gonna find in black and brown communities - to see anything that was outside of what the studios fed me, and that's not the case anymore.

  Ava DuVernay

  Order, Community, Black

  Source: collider.com

• Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.

  Ava DuVernay

  Talking, Voice, Important

  Source: deadline.com

• All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Scripts, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it.

  Ava DuVernay

  World, Privilege, Honest

  Source: collider.com

• The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.

  Ava DuVernay

  Done, Way, Film

  Source: deadline.com

• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Privilege, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.

  Ava DuVernay

  Color, Together, Able

  Source: collider.com

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