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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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" Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. "

Yance Ford

Survive

America

Black

" 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. "

" My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. "

Yance Ford

Moving

Inclusive

" I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information. "

" 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. "

" 'Trumbo' is conventional in its structure, mixing interviews with archival footage. What I enjoyed most about the film was its liberal use of his own personal letters to friends and family, performed dramatically by well-known actors. "

" Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as a storyteller. "

" I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. "

" 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. "

" The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. "

" I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar. "

" There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not. "

" We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. "

" 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. "

Yance Ford

Back

Family

" 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. "

" There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work. "

" If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that. "

" I don't feel like a hero. "

Yance Ford

Hero

Feel

" My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything. "

" When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. "

" I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing. "

" I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. "

" Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you? "

" I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives. "

" 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. "

" I love marching bands. "

" 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. "