Nia DaCosta Quotes

Nia DaCosta

Profession : Director

Birth : November 8, 1989

Horror is really in your psyche, it gets deeper into your brain.

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When it's about enhancing the psychological terror, go for it.

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I love gore, I love body horror, I love all that stuff.

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I like to call myself Marvel trash. Actually, my friends call me that. I will go see all the movies. Even if it's bad, I'm like, 'Well, there are some good things about this.'

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I grew up watching the 'Spider-Man' cartoon and 'the Fantastic Four.'

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I knew a lot about the Marvel universe in general.

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We are used to filmmakers telling us what it means to be black in America and we're always instructing it, like we're teaching a lesson. I didn't want to do that.

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There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of us that want to tell our stories and as a community, we're pushing the door open, together, even as we do different things.

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Within the space of a year, I worked on three TV shows, and the first one was directed by Martin Scorsese, the second one by Steve McQueen and the third by Steven Soderbergh.

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I, like many women around the world, watched 'Avengers: Endgame' and had that six seconds of all the Marvel women together. And at once I had chills, but I was also very annoyed. I was like 'Two hours of this, please.'

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In terms of the most successful heroes, no matter how much power you have, you never really have control over yourself. That's something you see in characters like Magneto, for example. His emotional life is always going to overpower his actual power.

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I'm trying to put less significance on my worth through work. That helps me shoulder that pressure because I'm also thinking, 'Am I a good friend? Am I a good sister? Am I living in the right city?'

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Something that you learn in film school is write what you know. I used to take that really literally. Like, I'd be like, OK, I'm a black woman from New York. I like brunch. Like, this is my write-what-you-know sort of - you know? But then I realized the better way of looking at that is write what you know emotionally.

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I think Candyman is a monster, for sure. I think, in some ways, he can also be an antihero. I think he's multifaceted.

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I love gore, but I think it has to have its place.

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I think body horror is really important.

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I wanted to tell a story about women who live in the rural part of America - what their lives were like, what their experiences were like, what their struggles were.

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Every character that I write is kind of an anti-heroine in a way. Not because I'm like, I need to write an anti-heroine. But I'm just like, let me write something interesting and unconventional to the point that they're dangerous, whether it's physically or her ideas of who she is.

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I heard about Jordan Peele wanting to do a 'Candyman' movie from my agent. I'm a huge fan of his and I love 'Candyman,' the original film, and I just wanted to be involved.

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Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don't get to really process and work through their trauma because they're too busy dealing with everyone else.

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