16+ Amma Asante Quotes On Marriage

Amma Asante is a British screenwriter and film director. She is best known for her films Belle, A United Kingdom, and Where Hands Touch. She has won numerous awards for her work, including a BAFTA for Best British Film for Belle. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Amma Asante on love, life, marriage.

There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So when you use race as a means to explore politics, it's a very interesting way of looking at difference, yet similarities. — Amma Asante

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal. — Amma Asante

I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create in a movie like the one I did, aesthetically, in terms of the costumes and the production design. I wanted something big and lush and beautiful and unashamedly feminine. — Amma Asante

What is right can never be impossible. — Amma Asante

I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and put as much of the budget onscreen as possible. So it starts with your heads of departments - your production designer, costume, hair and makeup designers. Picking the right people who were as committed as I was to telling the story as I was. — Amma Asante

The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a very strong view after a period of time, I think, where people fell asleep on politics to a certain extent. — Amma Asante

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present. — Amma Asante

What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a corner as filmmakers of color and that we're moving forward in our confidence and in the film industry not being afraid of our telling these stories and in giving us the opportunity to bring our vision to the screen. — Amma Asante

You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And then I could talk to that white guy about the first time he lost someone close to his heart, and I could tell him about the first time I lost someone close to my heart, and I can guarantee you that at least 70 percent of the experienced feelings will be similar. We are human beings. — Amma Asante

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma. — Amma Asante

The key quality all successful people share is the ability to inspire, to transfer our passion to other people and to bring them along with us in pursuit of our vision. I have to be able to inspire investors, actors and crews on a daily basis. What I recognize in other successful people is a similar ability to make their passion infectious. — Amma Asante

To really talk about African story, and teach this story, you have to teach that tribes were actually nations. You have to teach that chiefs were actually kings, with kingdoms. You have to teach that there was a structure that worked in Africa prior to colonialism. You have to teach that countries were colonized that were doing fine by themselves. And that's uncomfortable. — Amma Asante

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history. — Amma Asante

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are. — Amma Asante

If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their love?" And if it weakens their love, is that true love? And if this is true love, then you know they should be united by their separation. It's their fight that brings them emotionally together while they're physically separated, and so, though there's physical separation, there is mental and emotional closeness. — Amma Asante

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner. — Amma Asante

Life Lessons by Amma Asante

1. Amma Asante's work demonstrates the power of storytelling to challenge stereotypes and create meaningful change.
2. Asante's films explore themes of identity, race, and gender, and show the importance of representation in media.
3. Her work is a reminder that stories have the potential to open up conversations and inspire social progress.