Melvin Van Peebles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Film #Enjoy #Cooks
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Luxury #Worry #Done
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

#Likes #Way #Week
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Political #Desire #Hollywood
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Character #Important #Sound
I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#People
No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film." We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made. But there are financial and technical aspects which go along with it, that should be addressed and acknowledged, including those minorities who are doing excellent work as well.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Excellent Work #People #Lenses
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Filmmaker #Sociologists
Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#People #Tick #Interest
I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Kids #Pieces #Back When
I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Writing #Keys #Piano
Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Opportunity #Cameras #Actors
Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Directors
Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Scripts #Theater #Music Is
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
-- Melvin Van Peebles

#Boys #Different #Errands

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