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 More Quotes by Ava DuVernay More Quotes From Ava DuVernay I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing. Ava DuVernay badass color writing We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. Ava DuVernay slavery law ideas 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. Ava DuVernay festivals jobs television 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 hiring film easy [ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men. Ava DuVernay patriarchy hollywood men There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea. Ava DuVernay done opportunity ideas When you force sleep, it doesn't happen. Ava DuVernay force happens sleep 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 radical-change important age The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk. Ava DuVernay color rose people 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 pieces age thinking The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power, and for economic reasons and financial reasons, for financial gains, and we throw out humanization for criminalization. Ava DuVernay optics progress ideas The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at? Ava DuVernay cameras design actors Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. Ava DuVernay muddy black people I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults. Ava DuVernay jealous girlfriend thinking 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 Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. Ava DuVernay hollywood sweet directors 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 support voice thinking 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 play thinking I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed. Ava DuVernay cameras black wish 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 eight different mean
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