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" I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother. "
Yance Ford
Brother
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" When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation. "
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" When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. "
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" I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother. "
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" When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. "
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" I love marching bands. "
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" I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life. "
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Been
Life
" I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.' "
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" I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. "
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" It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief. "
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" Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience. "
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" I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information. "
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" It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices. "
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" Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.' "
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" I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system. "
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" Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. "
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Real
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" If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that. "
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Help
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Out
" Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history. "
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" There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not. "
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" What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It's actually quite old. "
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" 'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me. "
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" What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country. "
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Peers
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" My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. "
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" Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that. "
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" Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do. "
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America
Strong
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" We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. "
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Race
" People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic. "
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" It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies. "
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" The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. "
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" White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them. "
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Way
White
Power
" I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar. "
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