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Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

~Ava Duvernay

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When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Deal Done Elbow Else Film Grease Great Great Deal Job Marketing Mine Someone Strategy Until Whether Work

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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

Topics: Done Filmmakers Films Job Lock Must Need Our Picture Realize See Through

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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.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Admire Amazing Away Just Just Be Lee Narratives Really Spike Took You

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In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Chronicle Come Create Documentaries Get Narratives Out Situations Truth Unfolds Will You

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I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

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Topics: Bond Definitely Describe Friends Hard Men Often Portrayed See Special Think Women I Think

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

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Adult Am Girlfriends Great Jealous Little Think Who Women I Think I Am

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Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Complex Feel Know Like Medicine Need Positive

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

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Deemed Films Know Nobody Often Positive See Them Wants You

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I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Because Horrible Just Prison Set System Up Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 24th, 1972

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