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
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.
I like making movies.
study mythology my-own
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
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.
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.
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 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.
across american-director arthur came destroying left takes
The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
movies somewhere
If ICM can't get that movie made, then you have to go somewhere else where you can,