American - Director | January 19, 1966 -
I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.
Antoine Fuqua
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Each time you see a Western movie, it's a good reflection of where things are in the world at that time. It's probably one of the purest forms of cinema that really tells you where the world is.
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I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
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It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
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If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.
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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
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Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.
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You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
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You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
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I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.
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In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
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I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.
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