Antoine Fuqua Quotes

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways.

Co-directing is not possible with my brother. We have very different opinions.

Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

'Strictly Sinatra' became a compromise between me and the producers, and neither of us liked the results much.

There's a bit of a problem. The script that I like, the network doesn't like. The script that they like, I don't like.

Sometimes people have different views on different issues.

In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.

It's not the ideal situation to have two directors. It's just not the ideal thing.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

Sometimes, I've had the experience with a director where I didn't share the same vision of the movie.

I did a record with Janet Jackson, and it went to the top of the charts, and we had all of these complications, and she couldn't be in the video and couldn't do anything for the record. I went through something similar with Pitbull. I think it works really well for a lot of other artists, but for me, it just doesn't work that well.

I find it very difficult to work with people I don't like; I can't do that.

With the Roxbury guys (on 'Saturday Night Live'), I think the breaking point was when Stallone came on and wanted to do the sketch just because. And we're, like, 'Well, now we've got to create a story, so, what, are we bopping our heads with Rocky? What are we doing?'

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.