I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They’re as dedicated to achieving as I am. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for ‘Insecure.’ I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, ‘Wow – this is my life on the page.’ Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day. Melina Matsoukas Read Quote
