65 Quotes by Misha Green

When I read Matt Ruff's book, that was my first encounter with learning about sundown towns, and I was like 'What?' Like, you can't make this up. If I wrote this horror movie talking about sundown towns where you can't be black after dark in America, people be like, 'OK, we get the metaphor,' and it's like, no, that's real. It's not a metaphor.

Everybody wants to watch the underdog win.

The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.

When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.

I'm not a very religious person.

Aisha Hinds wasn't in my life one day, and now suddenly I see her every day. I'm like 'You're amazing. What are you doing right now? I have to see you, I'm coming over!'

I just wanna keep making stuff that - in a very selfish way - I find interesting.

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad things. Even slave owners need to be people.

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.