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- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like making movies.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in God, absolutely.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.
- Golden
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.
- Sitting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.
- Kurosawa
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.
- Phone Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in Hollywood go home to their wives and children who look like they do. If you're in that position, your natural thought pattern is sometimes to think, 'Superman, oh yeah he's white.' You can't get mad at somebody for doing that. It's the world they live in and for some, they only live in that bubble.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020