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I'm not in business to make money.
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I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!
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Baby
Mario
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In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.
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Fiction
Stranger
Way
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I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!
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Mario
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When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
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Come Up
Film
Reality
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My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.
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Father
People
Two
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My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.
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Loves
Life Father Me
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When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.
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Creative
Hollywood
Madness
Perfect
Cannon
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I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
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Unusual
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We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
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Birth
Flip
Sides
Tragedy
Coin
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There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
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Chances
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My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
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Mario
Phases
Life Dad Me
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My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
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Active
Demonstration
First Time
Late
Mother
Time Mother Father
Allowed
Attend
Time Father First Time
Stay
Van
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If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
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Man People Way
Disconnect
Industrial
Mechanical
Treat
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No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
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Girl
Boys
Differences
Modeling
Versus
Huge Difference
Leads
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History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
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Car
Book
Land
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If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
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Attitude
Box Office
Young Actors
Box
Deliver
Fail
Regardless
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People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.
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Axes
People
Reality
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When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people often feel a huge distance between their own lives and the lives of these social-change heroes. But the Panthers were flawed-up people from the streets, so it's easier to identify with them.
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Distance
Streets
Movies People Feel
Element
Gandhi
Identify
Jfk
Powerful People
Young People
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