Nia DaCosta : (3)

" We should be able to get better, even if it’s in the public eye – which a lot of our counterparts who are black women did not get to do. " - Nia DaCosta

" My worst nightmare was, sometimes you go to Sundance and there’s a female filmmaker and they’re like, ‘It’s been 12 years since their last film!’ I was like, ‘Yikes, I don’t want that to be me. I also didn’t want to get stuck as being seen as someone who just makes small movies. " - Nia DaCosta

" I think ‘Candyman’ is important in that way. Not necessarily my movie, but the concept of a sort of mythological figure that you can transpose a lot of stories on through horror, which is an easier genre through which to passively accept some hard truths. " - Nia DaCosta