Quotes
I am a radical.
Carter G. Woodson
Here we find that the Negro has failed to re- cover from his slavish habit of berating his own and worshipping others as perfect beings.
Carter G. Woodson
Facing this undesirable result, the highly educated Negro often grows sour. He becomes too pessimistic to be a constructive force and usually develops into a chronic fault-finder or a complainant at the bar of public opinion.
Carter G. Woodson
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
Carter G. Woodson
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
Carter G. Woodson
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Carter G. Woodson
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
You know, my business is now basically run by the marketing department. And most of these kids running the marketing department have their MBAs from somewhere and the extent of their film knowledge goes back to The Matrix. I mean, you mention Billy Wilder and they think you're talking about a place where you're going into a rave or something.
When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.
Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.
We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.
Two of our biggest movie stars are Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz, and they smile onscreen. Something people have forgotten about doing for 30 years.
The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.