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" I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment. "
Melina Matsoukas
Last
Habit
Moment
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" Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day. "
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" For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It's a lot of pressure, and it's scary, and I don't think that fear ever goes away. "
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" My style is super versatile and doesn't pertain to any one category. It can be best compared to a mood ring. It is very dependent on the mood I am feeling for the day. "
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" I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement. "
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" Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad. "
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" The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that. "
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" I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry. "
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" As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day. "
Melina Matsoukas
Clothing
Day
Never
" I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it. "
Melina Matsoukas
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Half
Hate
" I love that denim can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Anything goes. "
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Want
" I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director. "
Melina Matsoukas
Never
Myself
See
" I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.' "
Melina Matsoukas
My Life
Black
Woman
" I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap. "
Melina Matsoukas
Good
Perfect
Phone
" I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my history. I'm proud of the women and the men who came before us who are black, and I'm proud of the women before me who are black and who have achieved so much, even though we have so much against us, and we don't have those doors opening for us every day. "
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Women
Proud
Men
" I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am. "
Melina Matsoukas
I Am
Project
Passion
" In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there. "
Melina Matsoukas
Company
Love
Music
" I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters. "
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Bright
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" I really can't get involved with any project that I don't feel a hundred percent I can stand behind. "
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Stand
Project
Behind
" I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films. "
Melina Matsoukas
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Falling In Love
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