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I’ve been very lucky and I’ve worked really hard, and I’m really happy that I’ve had the experiences that I’ve had. Well… the good ones at least. At the same time, as well as I’m doing, this should be happening for more people who are like me.

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I always knew I wanted to do genre films. I love horrors and thrillers. But I didn’t think I’d be doing a Marvel movie as my third film. Absolutely not. Still, I’d always wanted to do a Marvel movie because I grew up with Marvel comics. I just wanted it to be a hero that I’m excited about. And I wanted it to be with good people.

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I got my master’s degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama ‘Little Woods,’ on the side.

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As I came into myself as a young Black woman, I realized there’s a whole type of person and human experience that is just not onscreen. That really pushed me towards what I do now, which is tell stories about people you don’t often see stories about.

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I was always writing and telling stories as a kid. Initially, I was like, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor.’ Then my mom was the one who was like, ‘No, you don’t. You want to direct. You want to have more control.’

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Even though my family wasn’t necessarily super well off, I realized that, because I was in a place with a relatively great infrastructure where I could walk to a hospital, or take the train to a Planned Parenthood or whatever, I was in a much better situation than a lot of women who live in the rural parts of America.

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I went through the 1970s in film, and I was so inspired by what I saw and by filmmakers like Scorsese, Lumet, Spielberg and Coppola. They made me think I could do anything I wanted with film.

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It’s through this medium of film that many of us learn about and communicate with one another, especially with people we don’t know.

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I just want to tell good stories in ways that will shine light on lives rarely seen on screen, because stories can push humanity forward.

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For me, Westerns are about how people are on a frontier, between society and the wild, and what being in that middle ground makes you do to survive.

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I love big superhero movies – when they are good – and I love big worlds and scope and genre, but there should never be a movie that’s just mindless entertainment. Even if you pretend it is. It should say something about who we are.

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Nia DaCosta

For me, I always want to make movies that have something to say.

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