Quotes by John Ridley - Page 3

If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kind am I? Well, to be honest... I'm a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn't, I'd love what they do. No, seriously, I'd love their stuff.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Disclosure
Love World People
Dc
Marvel
To Be Honest
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Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Academy
Achievement
Awards
Late
Mayer
Mgm
Organization
Ploy
Publicity
Recognizing
Shows
Picture
Arts
Itself
Cooked
Discourage
Formed
Front
Motion
Motion Picture
Newly
Sciences
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As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse you just can't seem to find in daily life. The stage is a performer's domain. You protect that domain. You are not on stage to take what's given just 'cause you're getting paid. If you are attacked, you retaliate.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Abuse
Daily Life
Domain
Attacked
Comedy Club
Daily
Performer
Retaliate
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Admitting
Appeals
Argument
Critics
Elitist
Food Stamps
Harvard
Lucky
Racism
Stamps
Obama
Certainly
Involves
Populace
Season
Seem
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
History
Black
Black History
Children
Cuisine
Diversity
May
Mean
Names
Needs
Real
Spending
Spending Time
Suspects
Talking
Usual
Month
Be Real
Those
Them
Discover
Enjoying
Fact
In Fact
Merely
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Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Conversation
Flipped
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Invisible
Racism
Asians
Blacks
Hispanics
Immediately
Referendum
Whites
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Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Black Community
Debate
Exclusive
Grudge
Intervention
Issues
Personal Responsibility
Philosophical
Washington
Frame
Matches
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Raging
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Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Equality
Americanism
Ascendancy
Deeds
Evidence
Good Deeds
Office
President
Rhetoric
Obama
Version
Deal
Grand
Hold
Mostly
None
Plurality
Seal
Self-Evident
Truths
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As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Aspect
Fulfillment
Hero
Mask
Peter
Reading
Stories
Superhero
Wish
Life Change Start
Heroes
Appealing
As Far As
Booth
Run
Could
Phone
Far
Jump
Put
Parker
Start
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There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Crafts
Deserve
Hard
Hollywood
Next
Paid
Persons
Recognition
Smoking
Vegas
Weekend
Workers
Below
Whatever
Expense
Number
Labeled
Line
Mostly
Next Thing
Reward
Whose
Working People
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Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Apocalypse
Calling
Jazz
Race
Semantics
Smooth
Stupid
Version
Claim
Humorist
Conservatives
Far
Mexicans
Reactionary
Rush
Smiling
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With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Amount
Constraints
Cost
Dollars
Film
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Invasion
Okay
Television
Wanted
Worry
Alien
Days
Budgetary
Comics
Fanciful
However
Novels
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'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Breakthrough
Hollywood
Jamie
Single
Television
Typical
Work Good Living
Beginning
Blacks
Mr
Brothers
Camera
Cooper
Front
Hanging
Martin
Racial
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We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Intellectual
Talking
Thinking
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I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Space
Drama
Thinking
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