Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Antoine Fuqua
- 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.
- I’ve become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I’ve seen those guys work and that was great to see.
- I’m a product of older filmmakers I guess the past, where you got to make movies and scenes, is what they are.
- I’d seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
- 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 just think you can’t shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You have to be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
- Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, and the romance of movies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director and film producer. His first feature film was the action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat. He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), for which star Denzel Washington won an Oscar; the action war drama Tears of the Sun (2003); the Arthurian legend film King Arthur (2004); the conspiracy action thriller Shooter (2007); the crime film Brooklyn’s Finest (2009); and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen (2013), The Equalizer (2014), which pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington again; and Southpaw (2015) with Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, and Rachel McAdams.
He is perhaps best known for the award-winning film Training Day (2001). Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners (2013), based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project.
Fuqua also directed The Magnificent Seven (2016), a modern-day remake of the 1960 western of the same name (The Magnificent Seven (1960)) and Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954), on which the western was based.
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