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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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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Writer
Long Beach
California
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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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large percentage of films. The odds that your film will get a major campaign are dim these days. So you must find and nurture your own audience and make sure your film has a life.
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Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.
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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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We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.
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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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Don't wait for permission to do something creative.
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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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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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When you force sleep, it doesn't happen.
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Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.
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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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If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
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Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit people in their gut, and the hope is that by doing that, we can get more people to think more deeply about these issues.
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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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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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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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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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