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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.

Ava DuVernay

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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Writer
Long Beach
California
Ava Marie DuVernay
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I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.
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If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
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[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
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Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
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At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.
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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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I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
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We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.
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Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.
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Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
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A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.
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