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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.

~Antoine Fuqua

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Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.

~Antoine Fuqua

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You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

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You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

~Antoine Fuqua

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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.

~Antoine Fuqua

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In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.

~Antoine Fuqua

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I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

~Antoine Fuqua

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When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.

~Antoine Fuqua

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I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'

~Antoine Fuqua

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I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

~Antoine Fuqua

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1966

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