fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: The black lesbians in the movie I had to find in bars or playing basketb
fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: The black lesbians in the movie I had to find in bars or playing basketball at the YMCA. In the art world there were maybe three black women and I didn’t even know them. I couldn’t write dialogue for them, I had to hear what they said and then create scripts from improvization. To put words in their mouths would have reduced them to a language, and I think the same thing is happening now. What you see still is white films with black tokens or hispanic tokens. You don’t see real cultural mixes. You only see that cultural exchange in small urban centers. Lizzie Borden on the making of Born in Flames -- source link