Top 1200 Black Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a movie.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

We need more Black, cisgender straight men to be willing to come out and say: 'I stand with Black trans people.'

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

The unwritten rule in college basketball is the black assistant goes and gets the black players. Don't worry about the X's and O's. Just recruit.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro.

I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.