Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream.… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
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… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
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. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
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 Copy Share
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share
