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Antoine Fuqua

Profession : Director

Birth : January 19, 1966

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

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'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.

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At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.

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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

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I like the opportunity to make films.

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I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.

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What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.

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I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

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It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

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I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.

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If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.

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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.

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The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

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It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.

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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

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If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.

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When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

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I like making movies.

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The challenge for a director - and I think a lot of directors feel the same way - is that today we have to put on a producer's hat, too. Meaning, you have to sometimes think of it being 'business show,' not just 'show business.'

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