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My biggest false steps have actually been when I tried to do very different projects. I found I was getting people saying, 'Why does Whit Stillman think he can do a film about blacks in early '60s Jamaica? Or the Chinese and the cultural revolution?' Those were the two biggest failures I had getting off the ground.

— Whit Stillman

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

— Euzhan Palcy

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

— Tim Reid

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

— John Edgar Wideman

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

— Paul Mooney

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

— Henry Bessemer

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

— Imtiaz Ali

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

— David Ayer

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

— Henry Louis Gates

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

— Ken Jeong

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

— Malcolm D. Lee