Jamie Foxx Quotes

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

I love 'The Godfather.'

With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.

I got in so much trouble when I was doing 'Snatched' in Hawaii.

If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.