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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.
Ava DuVernay
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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
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Long Beach
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Ava Marie DuVernay
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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.
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[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
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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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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
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When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.
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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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Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.
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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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Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.
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I tell the stories that are of interest to me.
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Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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These are dark times for a lot of people who believe differently than our incoming administration [of Donald Trump], but there's also joy there, and there's also something in unifying around the things that we do believe in.
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I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.
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Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films.
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Stop asking, start doing.
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We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.
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When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.
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