Nia DaCosta Quotes

Nia DaCosta

Profession : Director

Birth : November 8, 1989

Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling.

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The hero's pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero's pain is a thing that kind of starts their journey as opposed to ending it.

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We should be able to make different kinds of movies, so I'm really happy I got to make 'The Marvels' because it's like, I genuinely can just make a movie that doesn't have to traffic in Black pain. And I feel like a lot of black film-makers are asked to or expected to do that.

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I want to know more about Captain Marvel. Who is she? What are her fears? What drives her? How do you actually deal with being the most powerful being in the universe? How does that weigh on you? That's the sort of thing I want to explore.

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I am much more interested in the reality that, no matter what laws are in place, abortions will happen. Once someone decides and realizes that there are so many barriers to access, what will they do?

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Little Woods' came out of a desire to want to worry about people who are not like me and not where I'm from.

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It's very difficult for a woman to just pop up in the studio system. But I think the same systemic issues that affect how much work women get to make is also inside the indie space. While there are more women working, we definitely get less money.

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Horror is a really effective tool when it comes to telling stories about things that impact us on a social level. The right function of it is to make you uncomfortable. And if that discomfort is attached to explorations of race or gender, you have to then reconcile your feelings about race and gender.

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I think the thing about systemic oppression is that inclusion is purposeful, but so is exclusion.

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As you make more and more films, you want those films to be more interesting, more dynamic and to appeal to different audiences. But that requires risk.

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Eventually when 'Candyman' became a possibility, I pitched on it and got the job, so it was really wonderfully straightforward and so, so exciting.

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I think, like, '70s filmmaking in general was really huge for me because I was like, these men are insane. They're making these crazy movies, and anything is possible.

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Part of what I love so much about writing is learning about people who are unlike myself and going to places in my writing that I don't know very well.

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I think having a diversity of stories is important in also just spreading empathy and understanding. I think it's a really big part of how we, for better or worse, interact with each other and people we don't know.

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This is one of the biggest reasons I'm a writer: I love creating worlds but also discovering worlds and getting into the lives to people who aren't myself; that's really rewarding to me.

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It's always time to tell a story like 'Candyman.' Which is the big tragedy about the tale in the first place.

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I remember being in North Dakota and meeting women who stayed in bed and watched 'Law & Order: SVU' all day, waiting for their boyfriends or husbands to get back from their shifts, or who couldn't go out at night because they felt like it was dangerous for them.

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In the real world, we create monsters of men all the time.

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Horror's just better in a room full of people that are just freaking out.

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My mom once forgot to invite me to a family thing because she forgot I was in town. Stuff like that makes me go, 'I need to connect more.'

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