Quotes About The Amistad

#1. There are more whipped guys on television than there were on the Amistad.

Greg Giraldo

#2. I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#3. We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

John Quincy Adams

#4. I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad ... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Anthony Hopkins

#5. I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#6. I guess after a certain age, things change and those things or people or friendships that happen in movies, just don't happen in real life.

Alberto Fuguet