Melvin Van Peebles : (8)

" After ‘Don’t Play Us Cheap,’ I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" I’m pretty much a loner. That’s not good, bad, or indifferent. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had – they were secret at the time – a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" If you give people something they want, they’ll come and see it. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" Before I made ‘Sweetback,’ I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" Me and modesty don’t mix. " - Melvin Van Peebles

" You have to not let yourself believe you can’t. Do what you can do within the framework of what you have, and don’t look outside – look inside. " - Melvin Van Peebles