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Denzel Washington
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 28
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy, when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.
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In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.
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I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
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Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
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I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.
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Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
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As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
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In fact, someone was telling me that Gladiator was the one film where Ridley Scott didn't take a producer's credit. And it won. But this guy changed the industry twice with Aliens which was a whole new way of looking at things and Blade Runner that was also a whole new way of looking at things.
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I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.
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The greatest lesson I've learned in life is Who knows what's good or bad? Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.
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When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put a few dents in that shiny armor.
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When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.
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The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
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Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
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Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
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When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
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