John Ridley
John Ridley
John Ridley IV is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
violence sitting film
I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.
morning clever light
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
knowing together special
There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.
sexy sorry lying
I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.
beautiful events happens
For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.
america firsts virtue
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
crazy kids thinking
My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.
country people earth
There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.
black littles tire
I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'
believe hollywood morality
Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.
writing decision trying
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
people politician obvious
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'
children names desire
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
coping-mechanisms vegas hustle
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.