Filmmaker Quotes by Melvin Van Peebles

I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

— Melvin Van Peebles

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

Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you.

— 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

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

— Melvin Van Peebles

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

— Melvin Van Peebles

The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I intend to stay dangerous.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

— Melvin Van Peebles

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