No one says Steven Spielberg is the Jewish filmmaker, right? So why do we have to get put into a box as just a Black director? We have to be more than that and that means we have to look at ourselves as more than that.Īnd so, my feeling is to be proud of who you are but don’t ever let anybody put you in a box, ever. No one days Martin Scorsese is the Italian filmmaker.
#CONVERSATIONS WITH TYLER DENZEL WASHINGTON MOVIE#
You want to make a movie about somebody in space–it shouldn’t be based on your color, right? And so we have to just make the best movie that we can make whatever it is so that we could just become a great filmmaker. You’re Black when you walk in a room, when you wake up in the morning, right? So be proud of that.īut take your job to whatever dream you have. And that’s the only way we’re gonna make other people stop looking at us that way.ĭon’t just think of yourself as a Black director because you’re allowing yourself to get put in a box. Just be the best director you could be, right? That’s our job. My thoughts would be not to allow yourself to be a “Black director” because you’re Black by nature. That’s my job, right? So that the people coming behind me have a reference and they can do better, for sure.īOSSIP: What are your thoughts on the Black director renaissance in Hollywood right now? There was a time when there weren’t any and the only way you’re getting on that field is to win and give it all you got.Īnd that’s the best thing you could do for your people is to do the work at the highest level. I compare my job to a Black quarterback in the NFL. Denzel Washington broke his silence Saturday on Will Smith's Oscars slap, addressing his conversation with Smith immediately following the actor's assault of Chris Rock onstage at the. There’s a responsibility to represent and to win.
Well, I don’t know what legend means yet because I think I’m still young but there is a weight, right. What are your thoughts on being a legend in the director’s chair? BOSSIP: You’re one of the highest-grossing Black directors ever and the only Black director to direct a Blockbuster trilogy.
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