Quotes by Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who’s edited everything I’ve ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

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My Best Friend

Together

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

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Scripts

Writing

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn’t get a job making television. That’s how locked down TV is.

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As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.

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Black

Jobs

As long as you’re in an environment where the worth of the project isn’t based on the project but what its predecessors did, it’s not truly inclusive.

Environment

Long

Projects

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

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The End Of The Day

Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

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Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

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Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.

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Quotes by Ava DuVernay

Ava DuVernay

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who’s edited everything I’ve ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn’t get a job making television. That’s how locked down TV is.

As long as you’re in an environment where the worth of the project isn’t based on the project but what its predecessors did, it’s not truly inclusive.

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.

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