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I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

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Nate Parker
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: November 18
Actor
Amateur Wrestler
Coach
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Professional Wrestler
Screenwriter
Norfolk
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Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.
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If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.
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You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.
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I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!
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When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.
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Being a woman in 2016 if very different, imagine being a woman 20 years ago, and when we talk about consent, maybe 20 years from now we'll know things about consent and examine it from a different perspective than we are now.
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I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
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I'm 36-years-old and I'm learning about definitions that I should have known when I started having sex.
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I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.
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In all actuality, we got to do better about preparing our men for their interactions with women.
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Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...
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When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.
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I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.
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I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.
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My mother always tells me, Fear isn't from God, and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me.
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And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.
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I got work to do. I got a lot of work to do within myself.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for then but a message for now.
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I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.
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