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Antoine Fuqua
American
Director
About the author
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#People
#Care
#Lying
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Want
#Successful
#World
#Reality
#Artist
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,
American
Director
#Love
#Being
#Influence
#Movies
#Dream
#Growing up
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,
American
Director
#People
#Culture
#Idea
#Money
#Worth
#Cinema
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,
American
Director
#Want
#Man
#Cause
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Dumb
#First
#Question
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Work
#Friends
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Family
#World
#Government
#Trying
#Military
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Art
#Voice
I like the opportunity to make films.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Opportunity
I like making movies.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Movies
I believe in God, absolutely.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#God
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Magic
#Movies
#Romance
#Cinema
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Pain
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Work
#Men
#Opinions
#Ethics
But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Fun
#Movies
#Son
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.
Antoine Fuqua,
American
Director
#Battle
#Rome