Quotes from Misha Green

We're coming to see the revolution. And the revolution isn't always happy. It's not always pretty. But it's always satisfying.

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad things. Even slave owners need to be people.

For me, I feel like horror space has always been a space of the other, even when it's not people of color or black people. That has always drawn me to it, and I've been a big fan.

What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

Music has this ability to bridge time. You can hear a song from the 1920s and still be like, 'Oh, that's it. That's the feeling I have right now.'

I wanna do mystery, I wanna do sci-fi, I wanna do horror, and I wanna do all of those things.

I just wanna keep making stuff that - in a very selfish way - I find interesting.

I mean, you can't help but imagine it a little bit... like, 'What would I do with a Black Canary show?' It'd be exciting, I know that.

When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

I like to hear conversations that are debates.

For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.

When you have people from different parts of the world coming together, it just makes it so much richer.

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color.

I was working at Talesai, which is a Thai restaurant on Sunset. I actually worked there through selling my first script.

For me, a theme that's always circling around in my head - which is why I love the horror genre - is what we're ready to do for metaphorical and physical survival.

If the actors aren't reacting the way people would react, that's where you step into disbelief.

You know, being an 'other' in this world, you're walking around in a horror movie at all times, you're always on edge and wondering when the monster is going to jump out and get you. I feel like that's the experience of African-Americans and queer people in America.

The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.

The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go against. Which is 600 miles of crazy terrain being chased by slave catchers to get people to be what they should be in the first case - which is free.

I'm not a very religious person.

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.

I think, because you look around in Hollywood, and there are no 'me's. There's nobody that's as young as me, as black as me or as feminine as me. I think that's the problem. Representation matters.