Words matter. These are the best Melina Matsoukas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.
I’ve tried to create a comedy that doesn’t look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, ‘Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.’ But the way we shoot ‘Insecure’ is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.
I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.
Denim comes and goes into style often, but my Levi’s have longevity. They will never be just a fad.
I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They’re as dedicated to achieving as I am.
The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don’t get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don’t get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.
In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.
I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.
I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.
For me, the scariest moment is walking on set before we shoot the first shot, and I am so anxious. It’s a lot of pressure, and it’s scary, and I don’t think that fear ever goes away.
As a toddler, my favorite piece of clothing was my Oshkosh denim overalls that I would call my Oreos because I could never say Oshkosh. I was literally obsessed with them and wanted to wear them every single day.
I grew up falling in love with music videos and those images: Hype Williams and Mark Romanek, David Fincher and Diane Martel and Paul Hunter, just from the video side. I grew up also watching a lot of independent films and foreign films.
