Ava DuVernay Quotes - Page 4

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• When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

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  Icons, Noses

  Source: collider.com

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• I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.

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  Badass, Writing, Color

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

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  Ideas, Law, Slavery

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

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  Remember, Film, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.

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  Sleep, Force, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

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  Essence, Want, Collaboration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm not the most athletic gal, but because making a movie is very physical, I slow down on the Krispy Kreme and Ice Blendeds. I start to get leaner and more focused - like I'm going into a boxing match - because I'm about to really try to put this idea on its feet.

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  Ice, Ideas, Krispy Kreme

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

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  Hero, Who I Am, Parent

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• All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

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  Jobs, Television, Festivals

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

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  Film, Easy, Hiring

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I feel like it had an impact, in that it started the attention that has been paid to what was happening. It started to get us into this whole conversation about prison reform, the whole bipartisan dialogue that's been happening over the past five, six years about this, where you have a Van Jones and a Newt Gingrich, and you have the Rick Perrys and so forth getting up and talking about the need to reform.

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  Past, Impact, Talking

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• On my very first show, my partners in it, Oprah Winfrey and her network, and studio, Warner Horizon, who doesn't get enough credit, said, "Lady, we're going to let you call the shots the way you want to."

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  Horizon, Credit, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.

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  Punishment, Firsts, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

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  Opportunity, Ideas, Done

  Source: deadline.com

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• A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

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  Editors, My Best Friend, Together

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

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  People, Together, Netflix

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.

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  Art, People, Littles

  Source: deadline.com

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• Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

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  Voice, Focus, Black

  Source: deadline.com

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• I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

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  Art, Lying, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?

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  Design, Cameras, Actors

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

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  People, Black, Muddy

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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  School, Privilege, Film

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

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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.

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  Mean, Eight, Different

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

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