Category: director
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I mean, it’s weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, ‘Oh, my God. ‘300’ is huge.’ I’m like, ‘Really? It’s not done yet!’
Zack Snyder
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My brother’s death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.
Yance Ford
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Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
Yance Ford
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There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.
Yance Ford
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When I use the word ‘buzz’ in successive sentences, it’s clearly time for me to stop writing.
Yance Ford
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I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says ‘I was afraid’ of a big black guy, that’s enough to say, ‘Okay, not guilty,’ or, ‘No indictment.’ It’s persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
Yance Ford
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If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I’m so excited about that.
Yance Ford
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it’s the opposite.
Yance Ford
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It’s interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you’re going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it’ll cost you $200,000. It’s the same… the relationship is exactly the same.
Zack Snyder
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I’m incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.
Yance Ford