Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them. Boots Riley Read Quote
That punk approach of ‘We don’t wanna get big’ is really a bourgeois thing. It’s not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things. Boots Riley Read Quote
Going to school in San Francisco, you’re not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A. Boots Riley Read Quote
What I like about music is that you make a song, you’ve got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life – they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It’s in their world, and it takes on its own life. Boots Riley Read Quote
Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it’s not connected to actual movements, it doesn’t ask the right questions. Boots Riley Read Quote
You make art, you make it from what you know, and that’s the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it’s yours. Boots Riley Read Quote
I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking. Boots Riley Read Quote
There’s the part of me that’s the organizer, part of me that’s the artist, part of me that’s the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning. Boots Riley Read Quote
Trying to get somebody to read your script and you’re a musician? That’s the last person whose script you’re gonna read! Boots Riley Read Quote
