Let There Be Light

Writer-Director Ava Duvernay on the Power of Positivity

- Ava Duvernay

In my new film, A Wrinkle in Time, we explore the idea that darkness moves faster than light. When I first started working on the story, I had to interrogate that line to really understand it for myself. The idea is that negativity has great power. Whether it leads to physical violence or it manifests as a mean thought, negativity ricochets and does damage in every form it takes.

I grew up in a neighborhood where there was a lot of negativity, but my mother and father? Such positive people. They’d see the good in a situation before they’d see the bad. Always full of light. And so I was that way too for a long time.