I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get… — 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
Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about?… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he… — 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
