Antoine Fuqua Quotes
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.
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In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying.
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People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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There's no doubt in my mind that people on the West Coast - L.A. particularly - and the East Coast have no clue at all about what's happening outside their own little bailiwick. And they think everybody is stupid because they are not sophisticated.
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War in Africa is hardly a new phenomenon, nor are voices telling its stories of terror and triumph. Yet some of the continent's most devastating conflicts - and the literature born from the experiences of their survivors - have often gone unnoticed in the West.
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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
