Melvin Van Peebles Quotes
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Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
— Melvin Van Peebles
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
It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.
— Paul T. Scheuring
It was embarrassing enough to have a crush on a patron. It was worse to have a crush on someone who'd never actually spoken to you before.
— Madeleine Urban
Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
— David J. Schwartz
Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
— Melvin Van Peebles
I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.
— Melvin Van Peebles
You're so beautiful. I wish I'd seen you as a child. (Acheron)You didn't miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
— Louis Pasteur
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
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
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
