Words matter. These are the best George Tillman, Jr. Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
I want to see that ‘Anita’ documentary. I want to see ‘Lovelace’; I want to see ‘After Midnight,’ because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great.
There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.
I shoot a lot of film – that’s one of the things I try to do, and it’s one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on ‘Men of Honor.’
I used to get so upset with my father. I’d ask him, ‘Why do I have to be around all these women all the time?’ But in time, I learned that was an advantage.
As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie’s going to look like.
When I was working on ‘Men of Honor’ with Robert De Niro, there’s a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us about six weeks to find the right pipe for him to use and feel comfortable with. It was a great choice, because it was really about what worked with the camera at that time.
It’s my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It’s my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.
Steve McQueen was the guy who said less, and everything was all behind his words and what he didn’t say, and you still felt emotionally connected and rooted behind him.
I don’t really consider myself a writer.
Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.
Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
Filmmakers are always in a bubble; along with our crew or writer, we don’t really get to socialize with other filmmakers, so the great thing about Sundance is you can see many other filmmakers doing the same thing you do.
I love telling stories from a kid’s point of view because they don’t really see all the obstacles in front of them. They’re resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
These guys at Fox knew that as a filmmaker, I could always tell different types of stories and each can emotionally connect to a universal audience.
