American - Actor | August 21, 1932 -
If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it.
Melvin Van Peebles
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I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.
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Me and modesty don't mix.
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I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain.
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Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.
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What happened when 'Sweetback' made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation.
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The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.
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One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'
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I'm from the Southside of Chicago.
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What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.
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I work from a subjective palette.
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'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.
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