American - Director | January 19, 1966 -
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
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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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Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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I like the opportunity to make films.
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I like making movies.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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