Quotes by Melina Matsoukas - Page 1

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.
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Imagery
Provocative
Awry
Works
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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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Longevity
Fad
Levi
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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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Improvement
Perfect
Room
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I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.
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Habit
Procrastinate
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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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Dependent
Mood
Versatile
Category
Ring
For The Day
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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.
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Dedicated
Performers
Achieving
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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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Anxious
Scariest
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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.
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Love Time Music
Craft
Experimental
Hone
Music Videos
Production Company
Sets
Videos
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It's important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can't be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
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Beauty
Women
Ashamed
Embrace
Important
Made
Sexuality
Smart
Work Women Beautiful
Feel
Against
Beauty Work Women
Try
Bodies
Victimized
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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.
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Overalls
Toddler
Clothing
Every Single Day
Single Day
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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.
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Computer
Consuming
Crap
Looks
Video
Worst
Youtube
Phone
Ideal
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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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Filmmaking
Naive
Reason
Stories
Change World Change The World
Change The World
Got
Hear
Would
Images
See
Super
Voices
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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.
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Falling In Love
Hype
David
Diane
Falling
Images
Independent Films
Music Videos
Paul
Williams
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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.'
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Insecure
Pages
Life Myself Me
Agent
Attracted
Life Myself Black
Pilot
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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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Doors
Opening
History Men Women
Achieved
History Women Men
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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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Insecure
Bright
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The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.
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Advice
Disappointment
Motivated
Needed
Worst
Money Myself I Am
Paying
Push
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