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David Oyelowo

We’re all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it’s something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.

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David Oyelowo

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It’s that two, three hours and the audience, and you’d better tell the truth.

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David Oyelowo

I’ve just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we’re missing by not having more women directing.

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David Oyelowo

The fact that I was black and desirous to do my work, the other kids would call me a coconut, as if I were somehow attempting to be white. The bullying was real: I’d get punched, spat at, terrible things.

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David Oyelowo

People in the industry thought it was laughable that I should be going up for things that didn’t clearly state what race the part was intended for.

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David Oyelowo

You really want to keep ringing the changes – you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you’re going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

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David Oyelowo

The only way we are going to get diversity is if the demographics of the decision-makers change… The odd-token bone thrown is not going to do it. Don’t pat yourself on the back because you made that black drama; that’s not diversity. It’s got to be baked into the foundation of where the ideas flow from.

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David Oyelowo

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and ’90s – endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens – and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

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David Oyelowo

I know that I am not owed the right to make movies. I know God has given me this privileged position, and I have to work dog-hard as an actor to make the films the best they can be.

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David Oyelowo

I turn down a lot of movies because sometimes they glamorize violence or the darker side of sex or criminality.

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David Oyelowo

Hollywood has done some of these films, and some of them are ginormous biblical movies, but you can tell the people making these are not invested in the truth of what those stories are biblically. It shows in the work.

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David Oyelowo

We’ve had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.

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