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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'
- Delving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.
- Nov 07, 2020
I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I am not owed the right to make movies. I know God has given me this privileged position, and I have to work dog-hard as an actor to make the films the best they can be.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change... The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don't pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that's not diversity. It's got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I'd get punched, spat at, terrible things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020