Quotes about griffith (13 Quotes)






    Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.


    We're back on the prowl looking for space. We had kids coming in from Highland, Griffith and other areas in the region. I've already had parents call to see what they can and I think we'll be having a meeting soon to weigh our options.

    Griffith invented the idea of the closeup and of telling different story lines at the same time. The problem is that he did it in a way that conditioned an extremely negative response to blackness,

    Mr. Stephens and another member at Augusta, John Griffith from Texas, were trying to figure out a good caddy who could get along with Ben. They thought I was the one. Between Mr. Griffith and Mr. Stephens, they got us both to agree and we've been with each other ever since. We work so well together.




    This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonfiction information that I had to weave together.




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