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One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.
Theodore Melfi
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Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.
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The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
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As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.
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We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
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We're very, very flawed, myself included.
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I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.
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My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.
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If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.
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Life is laughter.
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If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
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By the time I got to 'St Vincent,' I had shot so many scenarios I was ready for anything - I've shot kangaroos, I've shot dogs, cats, crowds, fight scenes, stunts, comedy, drama, handheld, dolly, helicopter, crane - I just felt that there was nothing I was unprepared for.
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