Cheryl Dunye Quotes
b. 1966
Cheryl Dunye (born 13 May 1966) is a Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress.
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“We’re losing these really vital stories from the queer canon and these representations of LGBTQ individuals are just disappearing throughout history,”
"I’m not saying that’s a negative thing or a positive thing, that’s just how it is.”
“That’s not all that we are. We’re a varied, beautiful ‘rainbow’ of identities.”
“I really do hope that 10 years from now, 20 years from now, people have the ability to see it in more and more communities, because everybody doesn’t get to a film festival.”
“It’s great to know that this is still alive and that there is a younger generation going back to the cinema to see and experience community in a dark room with a great story being told.”
“There were 20 minutes in the middle where it just stopped.”
“The Watermelon Woman,” is proof of that, of “what you can do when you’re invisible,”
“This film is not just a queer film, a black film, an indie film,”
“Being at the Castro and just sitting there and feeling the ridiculous stories and events that have filled that space just feels great,”
"We have so few of these theaters left across America,”
“The festival is definitely a wonderful thing,”
“The seats are great, and we add that modern touch of people speaking from the audience and clapping and comments, which I think is rare in the cinema house.”
“This is an important piece of cinema.”
“It is a space where a part of your identity can feel reclaimed, and I think that’s what The Watermelon Woman really talks about, this reclamation of the pluralities that we hold in our identity.”
“Tons of people were in black cinema — toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies and bucks,”
“I think [the film] lives on for that reason, because people still don’t know what a black queer person looks like, unless it’s a farcical, drag queeny, commercial way,”