Latest Noel Clarke Quotes from Interviews

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• What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think I'm in touch with other film fans and that they might want to watch stuff. The other reason I really don't care is because no matter what you do in life, no matter what you wear, or what you say, people are going to like it or they're not. And that is all. Everything, down to the socks I chose today - people are going to like them or they're not and there's nothing you can do about that.

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, People, Care

• As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.

  Noel Clarke

  Mistake, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".

  Noel Clarke

  People, Study, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".

  Noel Clarke

  Hard Work, Kids, Blessing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.

  Noel Clarke

  Mother, Weed, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

  Noel Clarke

  Community, Different, Culture

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

  Noel Clarke

  Hard Work, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I would say to any young black , if you get a job and you're asked to work 100%, then you work 125% and don't complain about it. The moment you complain about it, then you don't really want to work. Always do more than you're asked to do and you'll get far in life - and that applies to all youth.

  Noel Clarke

  Black, Complaining, Youth

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• You'll never see me in any of the tabloids because I've made a conscious effort to stay out of that. I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in hard work and letting my work speak for what I do. I've been in high-profile shows but you don't see stories on me because I don't go out and court them.

  Noel Clarke

  Hard Work, Effort, Speak

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to do more than one thing, and to play different characters, is part of the job that I'm supposed to do. Hopefully, I can continue doing that.

  Noel Clarke

  Character, Diversity, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

  Noel Clarke

  Positivity, Negative

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I don't feel that I'm a role model. I'm just me. If people want to look up to me then that's their business. I'm not perfect and I don't consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I'd much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.

  Noel Clarke

  Kids, People, Role Models

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't remember speaking to my elders like that, because you never remember... actually our generation was quite bad because everyone else always seems worse.

  Noel Clarke

  Character, Remember, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• All the young people grow up too fast and want to be able to do this, or that. When you get to the older age and you have a mortgage, bills, this and that you think: "If I had done that differently when I was younger, then I wouldn't be in this situation now."

  Noel Clarke

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• If I'm given the opportunity of writing, directing and acting in the same film I would love to do it again. It's something I don't think that anyone else is doing in the country at this level... not many people are doing it in the world. I think if you check that out and find it's quite accurate, there's only a handful of people that actually are doing it.

  Noel Clarke

  Country, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

  Noel Clarke

  Sometimes

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want." I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something."

  Noel Clarke

  Teacher, Writing, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do."

  Noel Clarke

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.

  Noel Clarke

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it." I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!

  Noel Clarke

  Writing, Giving, Support

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.

  Noel Clarke

  Bullying, Intimidation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com