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
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.
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.
forget filmmaker who-you-are
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
opportunity film
I like the opportunity to make films.
fun independent son
I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately. But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
thinking artist open-minded
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
directors cinema
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
hero gun helping-others
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.
men views work-ethic
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
believe i-believe believe-in-god
I believe in God, absolutely.
guy stones
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
real past thinking
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.
I like making movies.
study mythology my-own
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.