I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.


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AVA DELLAIRA
There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That...
AVA DELLAIRA
There's more to life than being a passenger.
AVA DELLAIRA
But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff.
AVA DELLAIRA
I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear...
AVA DELLAIRA
When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.
AVA DELLAIRA
You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.
AVA DELLAIRA
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER
All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my ha...
AVA DELLAIRA
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON
I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us...
AVA DELLAIRA
The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER
You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL
When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL
There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
DR AVA CADELL