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What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
Antoine Fuqua
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Antoine Fuqua
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 19
Film Director
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
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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.
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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.
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Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.
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