Zitat des Tages von Theodore Melfi:
I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.
The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.
I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.
By the time I got to 'St Vincent,' I had shot so many scenarios I was ready for anything - I've shot kangaroos, I've shot dogs, cats, crowds, fight scenes, stunts, comedy, drama, handheld, dolly, helicopter, crane - I just felt that there was nothing I was unprepared for.
NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.
Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.
I have a very strict philosophy that if you're not working out, you're getting fat.
A Sunday matinee is a good time for families to go to a movie.
I think the commercial world is a lateral step from features. Some people see it as a step down, but I've never understood that.
The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.
You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'
We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
