Ava duvernay

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

I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film...

As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.

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

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

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