Tessa Thompson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.”

“I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.”

“I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.”

“The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.”

“I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.”

“I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.”