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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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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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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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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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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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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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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I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.
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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.
