Because Quote by Melvin Van Peebles

“'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.”

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

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

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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.

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

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I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

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

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

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

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Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

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I intend to stay dangerous.

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

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I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,…

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