I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it.
Nate ParkerI prefer to make movies which not only have a message for "then" but a message for "now."
Nate ParkerI'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.
Nate ParkerIt's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.
Nate ParkerA lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."
Nate Parker