Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

For me, the Sundance Institute is just an extension of something I believed in, which is creating a mechanism for new voices to have a place to develop and be heard.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

It feels nice to be able to call Brainfeeder my home. It's giving art the platform. That's what Brainfeeder has always been for me: hope for art.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

I am not a person who just wants to be an actor. Do you know what I mean? I am an artist who wants to speak to people through his work: through his vessel.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.