Ava DuVernay Quotes
Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.
Quotes to Explore
-
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
-
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
-
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
-
It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
-
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
-
I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
-
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
-
Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
-
I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
-
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
-
I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
-
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
-
Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
-
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
-
I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
-
The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
-
I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
-
...there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
-
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.
-
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
-
Any film that you see that has any progressive spirits that is made by any people of color or a woman is a triumph in and of itself. Whether you agree with it or not. Something that comes with some point of view and some personal perspective from a woman or a person of color is a unicorn.
