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I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.

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Ava DuVernay

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There’s really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I’m in – a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

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You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it’s raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That’s the challenge: Women artists don’t get a second chance. People-of-color artists don’t get a second chance. You’re put in director’s jail, and that’s a wrap.

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April 21, 2024

You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it’s raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That’s the challenge: Women artists don’t get a second chance. People-of-color artists don’t get a second chance. You’re put in director’s jail, and that’s a wrap.

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April 21, 2024

There’s really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I’m in – a black woman directing films in Hollywood.

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