Ava DuVernay Quotes
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
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Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that.
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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
