David Oyelowo Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

  David Oyelowo

  Historical, Black, Legacy

  "'In my head, this is massive'". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2005.

• I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you don't give birth to a baby and just leave it on someone else's doorstep. You see it all the way through college.

  David Oyelowo

  Baby, Children, Moving

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Giving, Watches

  Source: variety.com

• When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, Moving, Sunday

  Source: aalbc.com

• Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

  David Oyelowo

  Film, Considering, Interracial Marriage

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

  David Oyelowo

  People, Black, Labels

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters.

  David Oyelowo

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

• We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.

  David Oyelowo

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• The wonderful situation that I find myself in now, is that choosing the roles I want is more of a reality for me. As a result, I take it very seriously, because I find this opportunity in film to be a very powerful and influential medium.

  David Oyelowo

  Powerful, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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