Top 104 Quotes by Ava DuVernay

About Ava DuVernay

These are some quotes by American author Ava DuVernay Director, who was born on August 24, 1972.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

Ava DuVernay

I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone's feeling good and doing their best. Not to just be the only one in the room that's shining.

I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone's feeling good and doing their best. Not to just be the only one in the room that's shining.

Ava DuVernay

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

Ava DuVernay

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

Ava DuVernay

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Ava DuVernay

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

Ava DuVernay

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Ava DuVernay

If you walk into a room, and there is no one that's not like you there, whether it's a woman or a person of color, anyone that's different from you, you should be able to say this is a problem. We need allies in that room to say that video, this room, this company, these ideas, this film, this whatever, this is not right - this is not good enough.

Ava DuVernay

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Ava DuVernay

If your dream is only about you, it's too small.

If your dream is only about you, it's too small.

Ava DuVernay

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