Ava DuVernay Quotes - Page 5

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• I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

  Ava DuVernay

  Stories, Interest

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

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• I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girlfriend, Jealous, Thinking

  "Ava DuVernay on Fear, Friendship, and Working With Miu Miu". Interview with Veronica Misako Gledhill, www.thecut.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Privilege, Film

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

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• 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.

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• I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

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  Thinking, Voice, Support

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

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• The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

  Ava DuVernay

  Long, Stories, Documentaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Want, Film, Knows

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

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• I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

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  Writing, Keys, Phones

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

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• I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

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  Black, Wish, Cameras

  "10 Questions With Ava DuVernay ('I Will Follow,' Middle Of Nowhere,” AFFRM)". www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Eight, Different

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

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• As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

  Ava DuVernay

  Long, Environment, Projects

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

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