Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuquais an American film director and film producer. He has directed primarily action films and thrillers variety of subgenres, and is probably best known for his 2001 film Training Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 January 1966
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
movies somewhere
If ICM can't get that movie made, then you have to go somewhere else where you can,
american-director movies reminds
But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
american-director people seriously
I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
american-director answer everybody feed government guy military sort trying
The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
dream growing-up kids
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.
study mythology my-own
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
directors cinema
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
shrines bullets violence
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
ideas people culture
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
pain shooting cameras
Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
successful reality artist
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.
drama good-friend actors
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.
stars real moving
Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.
suspense urban birth
You could call it that [urban Western], I guess, you could certainly call it that. A lot of these types of films are, really, if you get down to the core most suspense thrillers in this genre, the Western is sort of the birth of it all.