"One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty."

--

Source : Source: www.npr.org

Cheo Hodari Coker

#Winning Quotes #Steps Quotes #Novelty Quotes

“There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.”
“The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.”
“The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.”
“Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.”

Source : "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2001.
“The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands, with its sickly light, making him long for a mirror in which to study his face. Surely he'd be able to see the bones beneath the meat; the skull gleaming the way his teeth gleamed when he smiled. After all, wasn't that what a smile said? Hello, world, this is the way I'll look when the wet parts are rotted.”
“I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.”
“As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...”
“The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.”

You may also like:

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Actor
Brian Grazer
Film Producer
David Frost
Journalist
Faith Evans
Singer-songwriter
George Tillman, Jr.
Film producer
Mike Colter
Actor