133 Quotes by Ava DuVernay

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

When I’m marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else’s, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

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.

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

I didn’t go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

I’ve been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could’ve been more prepared for me? A publicist who’s been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

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

The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.