Nate Parker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Far too often scripts are being written with race in mind, but the subject matter doesn't lend itself to any conversation on race. I applaud Jesse [Zwick] for having the courage to say, this [About Alex] just a story about friends, and they could be anyone. There's no specific color that forces a relationship to be discussed in any other manner.
-- Nate Parker

#Color #Race #Mind
I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!
-- Nate Parker

#Jobs #Believe #Writing
Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.
-- Nate Parker

#Identity #Pieces #Who We Are
This is the psychosis of being a human being - the things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that make us who we are and that sometimes we have to get on the couch and talk out.
-- Nate Parker

#Psychosis #Who We Are #Sometimes
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.
-- Nate Parker

#Native American #Healing #People
How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.
-- Nate Parker

#True Friend #Teenager #Long
Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.
-- Nate Parker

#Motivation #Self Esteem #Thinking
The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.
-- Nate Parker

#Matter #Remember #Film
Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.
-- Nate Parker

#Running #People #Littles
I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.
-- Nate Parker

#Believe #Winning #Thinking
If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.
-- Nate Parker

#Believe #Vision #Done
I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.
-- Nate Parker

#Thinking #Want #Revolution
A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."
-- Nate Parker

#Ideas #Issues #People
I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
-- Nate Parker

#Hero #Thinking #Looks
When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.
-- Nate Parker

#Artist #Complacent
And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
-- Nate Parker

#Mean #Hard Work #Work Harder

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