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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

Topics: About Always Black Contemporary Hindsight Historical Hollywood Hollywood Movies Image Movies People See Why

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I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Black Break Down Explore Filmmakers Films Had Many Nuances Opportunities Our Reality Really Stories Tell Themselves Think Want Years I Think

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I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Beautifully Black Camera Could Directed Put Shoot Shoulder While Wish Woman I Wish

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We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black people in it - I've been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that's not true.

~Ava Duvernay

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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Black Community Dismantle Dissent Focus Folks Go Homes Hoping Humanity Inside Lives Lot Matter Means Movement Notion Outside People Protest Public Really Same Saying You

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I'm interested in seeing artists whom I respect who are very focused on the Black Lives Matter moment, bringing that into storytelling in a way that really amplifies the beauty and the humanity of people of color, and does it without having to wave a big sign that says, 'This is what we're doing.'

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Artists Beauty Big Black Bringing Color Does Doing Focused Having Humanity Interested Lives Matter Moment People Really Respect Says Seeing Sign Storytelling Very Wave Way Who Whom Without

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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Aware Black Child College Desire Filmmaker Films Had Making Never Teenager Women

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There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Black Clout Directing Films Gaining Hollywood Like Me Precedent Really Someone Space Woman

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It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Barbie Because Black Enough Even Women Women Are

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One of the reasons why I created the podcast called the 'The Call-In' that we do through Array - because as a black artist, every time I sit down with mainstream media, I'm asked about issues of race, identity and culture. No one asked what they ask my white male counterparts, which is: 'Where do you like to put the camera?'

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Array Artist Ask Asked Because Black Camera Counterparts Created Culture Down Every Every Time Identity Issues Like Mainstream Mainstream Media Male Media Put Race Reasons Sit Through Time Where Which White Why You

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