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Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it.

~Melvin Van Peebles

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I intend to stay dangerous.

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If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

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In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

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It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

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Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

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I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

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With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

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I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.

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My first feature, I made in France. There's a great respect for the author there - they don't change your stuff.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 21st, 1932

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