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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• My experience of test screenings is that you don’t know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says – and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.

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

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• I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it’s still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

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• 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.

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

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• ‘Cause movies are human drama, that’s it.

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• The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

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

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• It’s not worth it, it’s not about money, especially when you’re dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

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• I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that’s why I don’t read them. I think people are lying when they say they don’t care, that’s not true. I take them personally.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn’t get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn’t get along.

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• I believe in God, absolutely.

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• But I like to go to movies with my son because it’s still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

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

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• The simple answer is I’d just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I’d be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Antoine Fuqua (24)

Birth:	19th January, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director

About

Antoine Fuqua  is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest and Olympus Has Fallen. After going to school for electrical engineering, with the hope of going on to fly jets in the military, Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists like Toni Braxton and Prince, and then went on to become a successful film director. He is perhaps best known for the award-winning film Training Day.  Fuqua attended West Virginia University and West Virginia State University but did not graduate. He married actress Lela Rochon in April 1999.

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