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Ava DuVernay

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Good Work, Matter, People, Rise, Work
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I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

Baby, Dancing, Dirty, Fan, Reading, William

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

Helped, Hero, Parent, Parents, Who I Am

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Art, Believe, Film, Piece, Sound

A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.

Documentaries, Editor, Editors, My Best Friend, Together, Work

Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.

Black, Brown, Deeply, Focus, Include, Voice
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