Antoine Fuqua Quotes

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• Movies are so hard to get made - every step of the way of making a movie has obstacles. If you don't have that passion, if you don't have that vision, if you don't believe it's a piece of art worth making, then you probably won't get it made - you won't have a chance for it to be something special.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Believe, Passion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Artist, Thinking, Open Minded

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think I've seen that sort of character in a long time in this genre because again, there was a time when you could have quirky, strange characters that you grew to love, you didn't quite understand, you know, and then all of a sudden they became almost cardboard cutouts for awhile. You kind of know the guy, what his deal is - this guy's hard to figure out. He has some strange habits, but, you learn to love him and you discover more about him, where it comes from.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Love You, Character, Thinking

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Mean, Eras, Scripts

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. If the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. It's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. You feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's part of the film-making business and also part of the creative process - putting all the pieces together to make a movie, so that they all line up. Sometimes it looks like you have a lot of projects lined up, but some of them are in different stages.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Creative, Together, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Antoine Fuqua

  Past, Scene, Filmmaker

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Appreciation, Art, Independent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Antoine Fuqua

  Mom, Church, Ifs

  "Denzel Washington on Equalizer: 'We had Navy Seals train us'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make.

  Antoine Fuqua

  People, Office, Filmmaker

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, People, Psycho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Moving, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Stars, Real, Moving

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• 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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Lying, Warrior, Knives

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it and at one point, I decided I wanted to live an art life; I wanted to tell stories. I came to New York, and did what most people do - you become a PA and run and get coffee and pay your dues and learn until your opportunity comes.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Running, Art, Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Hero, Gun, Helping Others

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany's shot somewhere else? It's classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they're just as important as everything else.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Character, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Thinking, Past

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Fun, Laughing, Trying

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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

  Antoine Fuqua

  Directors, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Asking, Shrines, Bullets

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

  Antoine Fuqua

  Romance, Magic, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Dark, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Ideas, People, Who We Are

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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