Antoine Fuqua Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Moving, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Suspense, Urban, Birth

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

• I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Real, Thinking, Past

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

• You'll see in the movie he constantly does that-he only drinks his tea a certain way, brings his own tea bags, the guy pours hot water, it's like a consistency throughout the film, but he never breaks his habits. I mean, to a point, where he has to.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Mean, Water, Guy

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

• I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. If the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. It's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. You feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Dream, Growing Up, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, People, Psycho

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like the opportunity to make films.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Opportunity, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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