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Ava DuVernay
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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
Film Director
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Long Beach
California
Ava Marie DuVernay
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[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
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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.
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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?
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I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.
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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.
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At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.
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It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, This is who I'm hiring.
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I know that sounds a little bit corny, but I've found some solace in that. I hope art can continue to do that for people, I really do.
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When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment.
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If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
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Don't wait for permission to do something creative.
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I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.
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I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
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I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.
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I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
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I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
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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.
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I tell the stories that are of interest to me.
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True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.
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I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
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