Ava DuVernay Quotes - Page 2

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• Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Black, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his friend who is carrying the bag or whatever, and you're not going to light for that guy.

  Ava DuVernay

  Hero, Light, Two

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

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  Narrative, Admire, Ifs

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

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• 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.

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• [ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation piece long after this inauguration, whoever it was going to be.

  Ava DuVernay

  Fighting, Long, Age

  Source: deadline.com

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• At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

  Ava DuVernay

  Historical, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also joy there, and there's also something in unifying around the things that we do believe in.

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  Believe, Dark, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

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• By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.

  Ava DuVernay

  Giving, People, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

  Ava DuVernay

  Baby, Reading, Dirty

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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

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• We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

  Ava DuVernay

  Years, Trends

  Source: deadline.com

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• I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

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  Artist, People, Filmmaker

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.

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  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

  Ava DuVernay

  Independent, Ideas, Voice

  Source: deadline.com

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

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  Mean, Enjoy Life, Marketing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• In addition to that, we have a woman post-production supervisor, a woman colorist, a woman first AD, a woman production supervisor... I think it's really sad when I hear so many shows are content to stay in a mono-cultural realm, not realizing how they are subtracting from their own greatness by not inviting women and people of color into the space - that seasoning that makes the recipe even more great. It was absolutely imperative for me. It's how I run all my crews.

  Ava DuVernay

  Running, Greatness, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

  Ava DuVernay

  Men, Hollywood, Patriarchy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.

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  Thinking, Office, Attention

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

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  Thinking, Stories, Steps

  Source: deadline.com

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• True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.

  Ava DuVernay

  Games, Color, Years

  Source: deadline.com

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• The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization.

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  Ideas, Progress, Optics

  Source: deadline.com

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• I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.

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  Fighting, Emotional, Roots

  Source: deadline.com

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• I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

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  Negative, Want, Realist

  Source: deadline.com

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• Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Issues, Epidemics

  Source: deadline.com

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