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The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

~Melvin Van Peebles

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Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

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In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.

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Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

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I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.

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I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had - they were secret at the time - a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs.

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No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine.

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Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

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Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

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My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

~Melvin Van Peebles

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: August 21st, 1932

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