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I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

~Antoine Fuqua

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I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

~Antoine Fuqua

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I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

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We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

~Antoine Fuqua

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If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?

~Antoine Fuqua

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What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like getting a phone call from Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan saying they want you to coach them.

~Antoine Fuqua

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The world we live in is like a Benetton ad. It's changed, and we have to appeal to a broader audience. You want younger kids of every race to be able to see themselves in the movie.

~Antoine Fuqua

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People in Hollywood go home to their wives and children who look like they do. If you're in that position, your natural thought pattern is sometimes to think, 'Superman, oh yeah he's white.' You can't get mad at somebody for doing that. It's the world they live in and for some, they only live in that bubble.

~Antoine Fuqua

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Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

~Antoine Fuqua

Topics: Beautiful Before Big City Concrete Dirt Dream Evil Freedom Go Good Growing Growing Up Had Horses Kid Never People Really Seen Sense Simple Skies Space Stories Up Westerns Where You

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I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

~Antoine Fuqua

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1966

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