John Ridley Quotes

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• As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

  John Ridley

  Emotion, Worried, Storyteller

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

  John Ridley

  Gratitude, Fighting, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

  John Ridley

  Writing, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.

  John Ridley

  Thinking, Talking, Intellectual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

  John Ridley

  Knowing, Special, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

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

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• My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

  John Ridley

  Crazy, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

  John Ridley

  Police, Needs, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

  John Ridley

  Hate, Facts, Unsaid

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

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• With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

  John Ridley

  People, Politician, Obvious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

  John Ridley

  Beautiful, Events, Horrific

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

  John Ridley

  Jobs, Police, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .

  John Ridley

  Achievement, Black, Individuality

  "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.

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• Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

  John Ridley

  College, Care, Vote

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

  John Ridley

  Believe, Hollywood, Morality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.

  John Ridley

  Drama, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

  John Ridley

  Black, Littles, Tire

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

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• Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

  John Ridley

  People, Giving, Way

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

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• I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

  John Ridley

  Sitting, Violence, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

  John Ridley

  Creating, Entertainment, Emotion

  "John Ridley’s American Landscape". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 6, 2015.

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• Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

  John Ridley

  Morning, Clever, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

  John Ridley

  Country, People, Earth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

  John Ridley

  America, Firsts, Virtue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

  John Ridley

  Sexy, Sorry, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

  John Ridley

  Vegas, Coping Mechanisms, Hustle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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