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Antoine Fuqua Biography

Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American film director and producer. Initially active as a music video director, he has worked primarily in the action and thriller film subgenres, and is best known for his 2001 Academy Award-winning film Training Day.

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I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.

Appreciation, Art, Independent, Higher, Painting

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Cutting, Guy, Happen, Visual, Wind

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Become, Guy, Michael, See, Stones, Work

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they're making films where you witness violence in a real way.

Know, Past, Product, Real, Thinking

There are many stories of people didn't set out to make a film that became a classic - the whole process was a disaster, everybody hated each other, the movie itself was a disaster, everybody thought the movie and the script was going to be a piece of crap. Look at Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho. Nobody wanted to make Psycho; it was crap to them. The only person that wanted to make Psycho was Hitchcock. Now, it's considered a classic and a work of art.

Alfred, Art, Considered, People, Psycho, Stories

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it and at one point, I decided I wanted to live an art life; I wanted to tell stories. I came to New York, and did what most people do - you become a PA and run and get coffee and pay your dues and learn until your opportunity comes.

Art, Coffee, Drama, Running, Tell

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

Justice, People, Police, Tangle

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

Eastwood, Hundred, Mean, Movies, Sergio Leone

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Artist, Hard, Reality, Successful, World

I would be lying to you if I said I wouldn't love for it [Equalizer] to become a franchise, I would love for it to become a hit and all that great stuff. Who knows-you just make the best movie you can make, you know it's like, eat the whole thing, one piece at a time. And then, we'll see what happens, I would love for it to be.

Become, Know, Lying, Pieces, Time, Would Be

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

Action, Actors, Denzel, Drama, Good Friend, Like

Being a kid 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.

Dream, Growing, Growing Up, Kid, Kids, Movies

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

Art, Grew, Love, Make, Moving, People

I like making movies.

Like, Making, Movies

Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.

Actors, Different, Filmmakers, Mean, Watched

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Cinema, Magic, Movies, Paradiso, Romance

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Became, Cinema, Directors, Love, Movies, Power

Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make.

Affleck, Filmmaker, Four, Martin, Office, People

You'll see in the movie he constantly does that-he only drinks his tea a certain way, brings his own tea bags, the guy pours hot water, it's like a consistency throughout the film, but he never breaks his habits. I mean, to a point, where he has to.

Breaks, Brings, Guy, Like, Mean, Water

I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

Filmmaker, Guess, Movies, Past, Product, Scene

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