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I'm not signing on to direct 'Black Panther.' I think I'll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they're fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me.

~Ava Duvernay

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Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Artists Believe Black Create Film Free Interpretation Life Oneself Opposed People Reflection See Should Show Someone Special Tv Tv Show Value Want Work Written I See I Believe

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I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Aggressive Assertive Being Bold Brave Emotionally Even Line Lives Marches Passive People Putting Quite Really See Tactics Them Those I See

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The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

~Ava Duvernay

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Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.

~Ava Duvernay

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Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Art Box Box Office Breathes Chance Continue Create Find Give Grows Lives Office People Play Something Success Voice Within You

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Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.

~Ava Duvernay

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If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Able Allies Anyone Color Company Different Enough Film Good Ideas Like Need Not Good Enough Person Problem Right Room Say Should Video Walk Whatever Whether Woman You

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Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

~Ava Duvernay

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Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Down Feeds Few First Going Ground Instagram Just Know Look Media Narrative Nights People See Social Social Media Those Today Twitter Watching You Cnn

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 24th, 1972

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