Antoine Fuqua

“Sometimes you have to be a little bit crazy to do great things.”

“The best part of the job is the creativity. The worst part is the politics.”

“The gray area is where the truth lies. There's no right or wrong. It's all about your perspective.”

“I think the best way to be an activist is to be a great storyteller and create a platform for people to speak and to be seen.”

“I like to tell stories that have a message. I don't like to preach, but I like to have a point of view.”

“What I learned from the military is that's a camaraderie you can't find anywhere else.”

“I'm not a politician; I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a historian; I'm a filmmaker. I'm a storyteller.”

“Violence is a disease. You don't cure a disease by spreading it.”

“Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.”

“My job is to create a world. That's what I do. And if you're a good director, you create a world that people can believe in.”

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

“Music is my first love. It's the first thing that I heard that moved me.”

“I grew up in a tough neighborhood. I saw things I shouldn't have seen.”

“When you have a great actor, you can just watch them sit there and do nothing.”