- Nov 07, 2020
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- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even know I had a legacy.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do what I want to do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it.
- Intend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I intend to stay dangerous.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.
- Nov 07, 2020
In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020