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" Personally, I do movies the way I cook: I put in what I like in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week. "

Melvin Van Peebles

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" Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it. "

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" I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. "

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" In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. "

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" When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer. "

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" I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.' "

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" If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it. "

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" No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine. "

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" I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger. "

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" One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.' "

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" Truth of the matter is, I can't even read or write music. "

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" I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.' "

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" I work from a subjective palette. "

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" Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material. "

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" My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression. "

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" I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. "

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" When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat. "

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" Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film. "

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" Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time. "

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" You have to not let yourself believe you can't. Do what you can do within the framework of what you have, and don't look outside - look inside. "

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" If I was just a creator, I would still be back in the Lincoln annex in the Post Office. "

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" After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. "

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" Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. "

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" As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky. "

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" I do what I want to do. "

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" Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film. "

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" When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement. "

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" Scars are the price you pay for success. "

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