Ava DuVernay Quotes

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

Ava DuVernay

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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

Hailey Gates
- Good
- Why
- Know
On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

Ramez Naam
- People
- World
- Dream
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx
- Age
- Ideas
- Class
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.

Karin Slaughter
- World
- God
- Alone
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

Victor Hugo
- Second
- Liked
- Rembrandt
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'

Vincent Cassel
- Up
- Watching
- Bull