Nia DaCosta Quotes

Nia DaCosta

Profession : Director

Birth : November 8, 1989

I was a horror fan as a kid, but we didn't have a Black Freddy Krueger or a Black Jason Voorhees.

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In my community, everyone was daring each other to say 'Candyman' in the mirror five times.

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You have to be respectful of the stories you're telling. You can never use the real-world trauma as a sort of crass entertainment.

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Fiction tends to spread farther than nonfiction - and as a filmmaker, it's important to be cognizant of not perpetuating the same old stories.

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I finished 'Candyman,' I had two weeks of vacation and then I started my next movie.

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For me, 'Candyman' has always been about telling stories and how they are important to keep telling because they will hopefully stop us from repeating the past. But it also shows how everlasting this pain and trauma are.

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I think everyone is aware there's something wrong about the way violence is enacted against Black people in this country.

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I really love Tony Todd. He's iconic.

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The first thing I remember about Candyman was being dared to say his name in the bathroom at my middle school, which was right next to the projects. And so the first thing I really remember is feeling like Candyman was absolutely real.

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I was absolutely always aware of how my race and gender affected how people treat me.

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I think all horror movies are about trauma in one way or another, but I would love for there to be more space even within horror for us to talk about stuff that's not 'Being Black is really sad.' There are so many facets to our existence.

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