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Melina Matsoukas Quotes

American - Director | January 14, 1981 -

Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.

Melina Matsoukas

Humor Day Sometimes Way Through Get

Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi's have longevity. They will never be just a fad.

Melina Matsoukas

Style Will Never Longevity Just Fad

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.'

Melina Matsoukas

Life Myself Woman Me Black My Life

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Women History Day Men I Am Me

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Good Hate You Perfect Phone Looks

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

Melina Matsoukas

Create Sometimes Imagery Like Goes

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

Melina Matsoukas

Moment Habit College Up Where Last

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Love Music Falling In Love Watching

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Change Change The World World You

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Passion I Am Know Achieving Project

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.

Melina Matsoukas

Fear Moment I Am Me Think Pressure

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

Melina Matsoukas

Improvement Feel Perfect Done Never

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