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Yance Ford
Yance Ford
American Director
Black Family Me People Strong You
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We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. Yance Ford
Justice Criminal Our Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Way System Deal Influences Race
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
Life Death Myself Mind My Life Somewhere Down Changed Else Brother Somewhere Else Had He Picked Put Up Died Artist Working Image
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
Quality Sometimes Matter Single Lights Come Opposite Question Up Festival Often Loved Movies Meaningful Asked Chance
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices. Yance Ford
Work Director Amazing Made Tough Think Definitely Would Some Wrenching Push Particularly Been Lee Provocative Precious Screen Anyone Interesting Fantasies Them Choices View Novel Adapt
Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you? Yance Ford
Family You Black City Lifestyle Most Protect Because Does South Families Children Wanted Suburban Suburbs Mean Realization Actually
I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. Yance Ford
Family About Remind Make Audiences Fortunate Film Position
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life. Yance Ford
Life Time You Rights People Losing Behavior Black Wind White Bad Bad Behavior Temper Rarely Cost Insisting Up Person Get Jail Engage Your Even
My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything. Yance Ford
Mother Father Ability Just Anything Believed
The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. Yance Ford
Work Justice People Country System Color Meant
Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do. Yance Ford
People Strong Black Too Easy Brown Take Because Island Question Begin America Afraid Want Why Lives
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them. Yance Ford
People Black Power White Way Define Ability No-One Over Until Exempt Exert Person Get Representation Them Poor Agency Themselves Communities Believed Believes
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies. Yance Ford
Life People Sex Gender Real Life Imagination Our Easier Would Would-Be Sexual Had Making Real Different Movies Much Orientation Grasp Different Things Things
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief. Yance Ford
Family Grief People Strong Fear Important Our Claim About Island Understand Just Just As Much Much Reasonable Need
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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My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. Yance Ford
Inclusive About More Toward Sincere Academy Impression Representative Moving Hollywood Really
I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother. Yance Ford
Before Brother About POV Years Five Person Worked
I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life. Yance Ford
Life Entire Entire Life Been
I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother. Yance Ford
Mother Parents No-One Like Lot Surrogate Your
When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation. Yance Ford
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