Director Ava DuVernay Talks About Changing The Voice, And The Lens, Of Hollywood

Don’t get her wrong; she’s not unhappy with her success, or the success of Ryan Coogler of Black Panther or Dee Rees of Mudbound, but she knows the tiny number of directors of color in Hollywood. “We kind of sit on the top of a broken system. … Until that system is fertile ground for real growth, then we will just kind of sit on top of it as sparkly, shiny things for people to feel good.”