Amandla Stenberg Quotes

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

I would like to see more films being made with people of color behind the camera and in front of the camera, because the more times at bat we have, the better we get.

When I do a picture and it's 90% black, like 'Bird,' I use 90% black people.

I want to see women of African descent shine.

Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.

People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people - do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone's white. That's what we have to change.

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.

I've never bothered about my color.

I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I'm not into the Oscar and Emmys as much as I used to be because I'm tired of looking at people who don't look like me.

You can't get much whiter than me.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.