Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#i #like #make #opportunity

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 #driven #everything #films #find

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#i #joseph #just #my own #mysticism

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#i #i think #lying #people #personally

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

— Antoine Fuqua

#friends #great #guys #i #mann

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. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#because #black #colour #director #dumb

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#cause #dark #hard #know #line

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#artist #be true #create #entertaining #financially

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. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#complicated #else #everybody #everybody else #family

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

— Antoine Fuqua

#filmmaker #forget #going #i #learned