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Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
Film Director
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Television Producer
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Long Beach
California
Ava Marie DuVernay
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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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The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.
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If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
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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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[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
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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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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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When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.
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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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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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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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To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color, it's not a trend. This is our reality, and it's important that we do something to change it.
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I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.
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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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We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just I have a dream. They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.
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I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
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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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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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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
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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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