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When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.

~Ava Duvernay

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Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.

~Ava Duvernay

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There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

~Ava Duvernay

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If your dream is only about you, it's too small.

~Ava Duvernay

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The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were not terms. It was about networks, times, dates. Even with feature films, you had to see it this way, in this capacity, at this time. All that has changed. Now it's really about the story. It's a gift that I became a storyteller at this time.

~Ava Duvernay

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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Am Bad Black Complexity Dominant Everything Gaze Good Gray Hollywood Male Me Okay People Positive Saying See Straight Talk View Voice White Women I Am

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'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Drama Families Family Interact Our Ourselves Own Queen See Something Sugar Us Ways

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I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

~Ava Duvernay

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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

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