Quotes by Ryan Coogler - Page 1

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Film
Humanity
Me Always Film
Making
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Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
America
Crime
Human Rights
Massive
Rights
Human
Issue
Rights Issue
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In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Cannes
Emerging
Program
Short Film
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I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Research
Stories
Thinking
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I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Filmmaker
Research
Based
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To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Character
Flaws
Real
Real Person
Connect
Gotta
Onscreen
Recognize
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I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Depends
Mean
People
Source
Thinking
Treated
People Know Human
Human Being
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Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Art
Cinematic
Deals
Impact
Mind
Artists
Emotionally
Figure
Impacts
Outlet
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What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Do You Know
Important
Mean
Offering
Me People See
Me Important People
Angles
Me People Important
Perspectives
See
Worlds
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I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Grain
Tactile
Love Work Way
Love Work Feel
Authentic
Chose
Tech
Super
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I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very versatile in terms of that, and I enjoy all of it.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Versatile
Directed
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I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of money, but they spent the money they had on private school for us, Catholic school.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Catholic
Catholic School
Private School
Brothers
Educations
Private
Spent
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I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know?
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Asian
Chinese
Hispanic
Mexican
Pacific
Vietnamese
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Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Gun
People
Taken
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Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Dying
Gun
Homicide
Males
African
Certain Way
Leading
Leading Cause
Tendency
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I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Comic
Episodes
My Own
Twilight
Zone
Always School Own
Tv
Alternate
Books
Watched
Comic Books
Liked
Story Lines
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I kind of remember when I was young, I used to hang out with my dad sometimes. And I can remember just following him in and out of these domestic situations. Going to the grocery store, we'd go pick up my other brother, or we'd go here, go there.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Following
Remember When
Domestic
Grocery
Grocery Store
Hang
Store
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I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Adrift
Familiar
Inevitable
Lonely
Retired
Waiting
Life World Universe
Personal Story
Rocky
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Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to like it. I felt like that kind of grew me up a little bit into a professional. I was a student filmmaker, and no one writes reviews about student films.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Awesome
Bad Review
Review
Student Films
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'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Profound
Creed
Incredibly
Letting
Lore
Rocky
Something Kind
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My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Catholic
Catholic School
Clothes
Neighborhood
School
Two
African
African Americans
Rare
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You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
African American
Bulls
Males
Media
News
Shooting
Stereotype
Young
Good Doing See
Shot
Bull
Getting
Hear
Pit
Ways
Whenever
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Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Education
Black
Catholic
Football
Hood
Oakland
Private School
School
Young
Anywhere
Did
Before
Read
Early
Parents
Mostly
Other Kids
Private
Send
Spent
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As a filmmaker‚ like any artist‚ when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts‚ my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician‚ you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Song
Thinking
Writing
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As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts, my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician, you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Artist
Filmmaker
Musician
Song
Affects
Dealing
Emotionally
Fears
Hardships
Terms
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Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Age
Bay Area
Cop
Crime
Freeze
Intense
Police
Taught
Young Age
African
Area
Bay
Coming
Complex
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There are so many people that don't come in contact with black men. Whether they live in a homogeneous area that's mostly white or whether they live in places where they don't have to come in contact with them. So what kind of contact do they have with African-American males? They have the media, and that's it.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
African American
Black
Contact
Males
Media
White
Area
Men Black People
Mostly
Places
So Many People
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If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But let you get information about one person who you're close to or you're intimate with, it has an almost paralyzing effect.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
Asia
Information
Intimate
Lost
Teeth
Tsunami
Almost
Hit
Brush
Close
Effect
Hear
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
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We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.
Ryan Coogler / Film Director
African American
Good Job
Impossible
Long Time
Our Lives
Weak
Youth
Time Good Women
Time Good Men
African-American Community
Considered
Render
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