It was a huge hit to fans of the director when the news came that she would be nixing Marvel's 'Black Panther' project.

From the start she was immediately speculated to be a candidate to bring the studio's first black superhero to life in his first solo film, and while meetings with the Marvel execs took her to nearly accepting the project, she ultimately opted out.

While she wasn't clear on her specific reasons at the time, she admitted that her vision for the film conflicted with the studios, as many other directors have said.

In a recent 2015 BlogHer conference in New York, Duvernay decided to go more in depth on her decision to drop out of the project.

"For me, it was a process of trying to figure out, are these people I want to go to bed with? Because it's really a marriage, and for this it would be three years," DuVernay said. "It'd be three years of not doing other things that are important to me. So it was a question of, is this important enough for me to do?"

She went on to speak on her interest with the project and the cultural impact that it would make, but she believed the better choice for herself as a director would be to pass.

"This is my art. This is what will live on after I'm gone," she continued. "So it's important to me that that be true to who I was in this moment. And if there's too much compromise, it really wasn't going to be an Ava DuVernay film."

'Black Panther' is slated for a 2018 release date, giving it plenty of time to grab another director.