Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — 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
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
When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a… — 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
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
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
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — 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 other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
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 Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — 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
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
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 Image
