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I'm a Virgo writer/director Boots Riley

The Movies That Made Me

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Sorry to Bother You

I feel like the big chill was watered down remake of a John sales movie. I've never seen so many black female police chiefs in my life as I have in the last five movies. When I first wrote Sorry to Bother You, I didn't think I could get people behind me directing it. The character Chris Cooper is obviously a communist organizer. There's so many things that tie you to the humanity of the folks. It gets you on the right side of history against the Pinkertons.

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