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Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

American - Actor | August 21, 1932 -

If I was just a creator, I would still be back in the Lincoln annex in the Post Office.

Melvin Van Peebles

Back Office Creator Post Just Would

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

Melvin Van Peebles

I Am Me Think Find Tenacious Most

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

Melvin Van Peebles

Life Time You Over Material Lot

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

Melvin Van Peebles

Change You Go Want Little Big

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

People Black Think Talking You Back

I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.

Melvin Van Peebles

Me Speak You Down Years Turn

I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had - they were secret at the time - a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs.

Melvin Van Peebles

Time Person Heights Secret Used Jet

No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine.

Melvin Van Peebles

Black Dream White Different Mine

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

Melvin Van Peebles

Tired Saying Black You Seeing Need

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

Melvin Van Peebles

Knowing Without Uptight About Really

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

Melvin Van Peebles

Busy Wall Play Street Cheap Us

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

Melvin Van Peebles

World High Nuance Artistic

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