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Nia DaCosta

Profession : Director

Birth : November 8, 1989

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,' on the side.

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I always knew I wanted to do genre films. I love horrors and thrillers. But I didn't think I'd be doing a Marvel movie as my third film. Absolutely not. Still, I'd always wanted to do a Marvel movie because I grew up with Marvel comics. I just wanted it to be a hero that I'm excited about. And I wanted it to be with good people.

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I've been very lucky and I've worked really hard, and I'm really happy that I've had the experiences that I've had. Well... the good ones at least. At the same time, as well as I'm doing, this should be happening for more people who are like me.

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I think 'Candyman' is important in that way. Not necessarily my movie, but the concept of a sort of mythological figure that you can transpose a lot of stories on through horror, which is an easier genre through which to passively accept some hard truths.

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I think stories in a community are really useful because they pass on lessons to learn, to remember people.

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That's what's really fun and interesting about how 'Candyman' works and how legends work in general. They change because they have to. But at their core, they're trying to give you the same message.

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You really have to hold as many stories as possible in your hands before you figure out how to tell your singular story in the best way.

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What's great about horror is that horror stays with you after you leave the theater. You can say every great film stays with you, but horror really gets in your psyche.

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People are always going to go see movies in theaters.

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I really thought I should tell a story about women who live in a rural part of America, particularly those who are poor, and how that affects them not just as people, but as women. And how poverty can be a gendered experience.

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We should be able to get better, even if it's in the public eye - which a lot of our counterparts who are black women did not get to do.

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I'm definitely interested in class and how it represents itself in our culture, and how, depending on where you live, your life can be very different.

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I didn't want to get stuck being seen as 'an indie filmmaker.'

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Different types of stories have different types of mediums.

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I like to let people introduce themselves.

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When I was in elementary school, I thought the Candyman was a real thing that was happening to everyone, especially because it took place in the projects, which I lived across the street from. So I never have - and never will - say his name five times in the mirror. It's not in my nature. It just feels reckless and futile.

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As someone who loves horror, I can break down why a specific moment is scary in 'The Conjuring' or 'Rosemary's Baby,' and so much of it for me will always come down to characters.

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I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out.

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Candyman' is so perennial. We're talking about the cycles of violence and how history repeats itself and how we collectively process trauma through stories.

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Candyman' was a real urban legend for me as a kid, it wasn't just attached to the movie.

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