Antoine Fuqua Quotes

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.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

I believe in God, absolutely.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I like making movies.

I like the opportunity to make films.

What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?

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.

I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

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.