Ava DuVernay Quotes - Page 5

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• I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Keys, Phones

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

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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

  Black, Wish, Cameras

  "10 Questions With Ava DuVernay ('I Will Follow,' Middle Of Nowhere,” AFFRM)". www.indiewire.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

  Ava DuVernay

  Mean, Eight, Different

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

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• The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

  Ava DuVernay

  Long, Stories, Documentaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

  Ava DuVernay

  Thinking, Voice, Support

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

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• I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

  Ava DuVernay

  Girlfriend, Jealous, Thinking

  "Ava DuVernay on Fear, Friendship, and Working With Miu Miu". Interview with Veronica Misako Gledhill, www.thecut.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

  Ava DuVernay

  Stories, Interest

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

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

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Scripts, Film

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

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

  Ava DuVernay

  Want, Film, Knows

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

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