Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta (born 1989 Nov 8) is an American director and screenwriter.

Quotes.

• He’s a person, which is the whole point of this movie. He’s not just some like floating demon slayer, and it’s a really tricky balance…He’s someone who clearly has a lot of pain, and that’s something I find really interesting about him as a character.
  • On what drew her to the character of Candyman in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26)

• I love horror and I felt like I had a really good idea about how to make something scary, but also I’m very measured, especially with a story like this, about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate.
  • On her approach to the horror genre in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26)

• I would have hated getting the question, ‘Isn’t it so timely right now, with all these deaths going on?’ That’s not why we made it. But I think it will happen again – a summer like last summer. I think that the story we’re telling was about that: the fact that it’s cyclical. It could come out next year, it could come out any time and still be relevant.
  • On how the original release date for Candyman (2021) coincided with one of the heights of the Black Lives Matter in Candyman director Nia DaCosta: ‘It is shocking the way people have talked to me’” in The Guardian (2021 Aug 26)

• It’s not necessarily overtly racist, but it is shocking the way people have talked to me in my position as a director. People who work for me. Especially on a movie like this, where Jordan was the only other person of colour at the level of decision-making on the movie. And that’s unacceptable, frankly.
  • On the racism that she still encounters as a Black female director in “‘I had to leave Hollywood to save myself’: Kim Novak on art, bipolar, Hitchcock and happiness” in The Guardian (2021 Feb 15)