Ava DuVernay Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Black, Want, Littles

• There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girl, Reflection, Thinking

• I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Niche, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of critics. People who write about film, like you, can really affect the confidence of a young filmmaker. He did that for me, so it was such a pleasure to have an opportunity to talk about Roger in the movie.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  Source: aalbc.com

• It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

  Ava DuVernay

  Film, Easy, Hiring

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.

  Ava DuVernay

  Imagination, Tools, Want

  Source: deadline.com

• 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

  Jobs, Grease, Marketing

  "Ava DuVernay: The 'My Mic Sounds Nice'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. August 24, 2010.

• There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

  Ava DuVernay

  Kings, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

• I know when we were making the film [ Age Of Trump] that we knew that there was going to be some kind of radical change coming on the horizon. That's why it was important for us to get it out before the election.

  Ava DuVernay

  Important, Age, Radical Change

  Source: deadline.com

• I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Thinking, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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

  Ava DuVernay

  Want, Film, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

• I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Age, Pieces

  Source: deadline.com

• I'm making and marketing my films, by any means necessary, and enjoying life while I do so.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Enjoy Life, Marketing

  Source: aalbc.com

• I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

  Ava DuVernay

  Issues, Female, Statistics

• All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Block, Doors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Believe, Sound

  Source: collider.com

• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

• 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. It's pretty simple really. I just dive in and start digging. Yes, I'm fortunate to know the in's and out's of a true studio-level marketing campaign. But really, anyone who is diligent and well-researched can pull it off too. Its easier for me, but it doesn't make it impossible for others.

  Ava DuVernay

  Simple, Grease, Marketing

  Source: aalbc.com

• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Needs, Locks

  "Ava Duvernay ‘My Mic Sounds Nice’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 25, 2010.

• 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

  Mean, Men, White

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

• I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

  Ava DuVernay

  Remember, Film, Young

  Source: collider.com

• More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  People, Together, Netflix

  Source: deadline.com

• Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large percentage of films. The odds that your film will get a major campaign are dim these days. So you must find and nurture your own audience and make sure your film has a life.

  Ava DuVernay

  Done, Realizing, Film

  Source: aalbc.com

• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Thinking, Lovers

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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