Quotes by Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn’t get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn’t get along.

Cameras

Pain

Shooting

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Cinema

Magic

Romance

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone’s and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

Gun

Helping Others

Hero

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Cinema

Directors

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it’s about – these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany’s shot somewhere else? It’s classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they’re just as important as everything else.

Character

Love Is

Real

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.

Art

Moving

Voice

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I’ve always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course – Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I’d love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

Art

Moving

People

I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it’s still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

Fun

Independent

Son

I’ve become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I’ve seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Guy

Stones

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you’re not sure if he does that as a warrior, that’s just his thing.

Knives

Lying

Warrior

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Actors

Art

Artist

Birth

Cameras

Character

Cinema

Creative

Dark

Different

Directors

Drama

Eras

Filmmaker

Frustrated

Fun

Good Friend

Gun

Guy

Helping Others

Hero

Ideas

Independent

Justice

Knives

Love Is

Lying

Magic

Mean

Men

Moving

Office

Pain

People

Perspective

Police

Psycho

Real

Reality

Romance

Running

Scripts

Shooting

Son

Stones

Successful

Suspense

Talent

Together

Urban

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Quotes by Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn’t get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn’t get along.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone’s and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it’s about – these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany’s shot somewhere else? It’s classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they’re just as important as everything else.

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.

I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it’s still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

I’ve become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I’ve seen those guys work and that was great to see.

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you’re not sure if he does that as a warrior, that’s just his thing.

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