Antoine Fuqua Quotes
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
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If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
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As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
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If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
