Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

#1. 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.

Mario Van Peebles

#2. No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

Guy Finley

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

Melvin Van Peebles

#4. Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Melvin Van Peebles

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

Melvin Van Peebles

#6. Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

Melvin Van Peebles

#7. We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.

Albert Pike

#8. Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

Bertrand Russell

#9. I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.

Melvin Van Peebles

#10. I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

John Caudwell

#11. I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things.

Melvin Van Peebles

#12. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

Alyson Richman

#13. Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

Melvin Van Peebles

#14. Everything you say is worthwile to me. Even when you don't let me finish a sentence.

Tara Kelly

#15. Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.

Melvin Van Peebles

#16. Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Melvin Van Peebles

#17. Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.

Melvin Van Peebles

#18. My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.

Jane Green

#19. I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

Wayne Coyne

#20. I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

Melvin Van Peebles

#21. I always felt an outsider.

J.K. Rowling

#22. Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Melvin Van Peebles

#23. I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

Melvin Van Peebles

#24. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

Melvin Van Peebles

#25. Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

Ellen G. White