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Antoine Fuqua

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

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

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

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"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"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."
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"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."
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"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D."
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"I believe in God, absolutely."
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"I like making movies."
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"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."
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"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."
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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 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."
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