I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.
I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.