Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I'm A Product Of Older Filmmakers I Guess, The Past Where You Get To Make Movies And Scenes Are What They Are.

I Would Be Lying To You If I Said I Wouldn't Love For It [equalizer] To Become A Franchise, I Would Love For It To Become A Hit And All That Great Stuff. Who Knows-you Just Make The Best Movie You Can Make, You Know It's Like, Eat The Whole Thing, One Piece At A Time. And Then, We'll See What Happens, I Would Love For It To Be.

Not Harder Than It Should Be, No. We're About The Business, We're About The Work. It's All About The Work, Always. We Have Fun And Laugh And There're Days That Are More Intense Than Others, But We're There To Make It Better. He's Always Going To Try And Make It Better, I'm Always Going To Try And Make It Better. So You Accept Anything, You Accept Whatever It Takes To Get It Up On The Screen And Make It Worthy.

How Do You Capture The Drama Of A Rembrandt Painting In A Movie? How Do You Feel That Moment That They Captured In Two Hours? I Kind Of Fell Into It And At One Point, I Decided I Wanted To Live An Art Life; I Wanted To Tell Stories. I Came To New York, And Did What Most People Do - You Become A Pa And Run And Get Coffee And Pay Your Dues And Learn Until Your Opportunity Comes.

There Are Many Stories Of People Didn't Set Out To Make A Film That Became A Classic - The Whole Process Was A Disaster, Everybody Hated Each Other, The Movie Itself Was A Disaster, Everybody Thought The Movie And The Script Was Going To Be A Piece Of Crap. Look At Alfred Hitchcock And Psycho. Nobody Wanted To Make Psycho; It Was Crap To Them. The Only Person That Wanted To Make Psycho Was Hitchcock. Now, It's Considered A Classic And A Work Of Art.

You Could Call It That [urban Western], I Guess, You Could Certainly Call It That. A Lot Of These Types Of Films Are, Really, If You Get Down To The Core Most Suspense Thrillers In This Genre, The Western Is Sort Of The Birth Of It All.

One Hundred Percent, I Mean, Many Of The Sergio Leone Movies Were With Clint Eastwood, And That's What It Is.

The Outsider Hero Is Hero Riding Into Town, He's The Gunslinger, Shame - The Same Thing, He Didn't Want To Do It Anymore, He Wanted To Live A Different Life But Part Of Who You Are Sort Of Haunts You And You Can't Run Away From Evil And If You Have Special Skills, And Most People Are Mistreated, Which Is Unfortunately In Our World, We Always Need An Equalizer, That Type Of Character To Come To Our Rescue.

I Started Studying Mythology, Just On My Own. Joseph Campbell, Mysticism.

In Movies You Get To Do That. Sometimes With The Vigilante Justice Movie He Has To Also Tangle With Police, Which Are Traditional Or Security People. Is There Going To Be Any Of That In This?

I Believe In God, Absolutely.

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.