I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.
I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
My biggest false steps have actually been when I tried to do very different projects. I found I was getting people saying, 'Why does Whit Stillman think he can do a film about blacks in early '60s Jamaica? Or the Chinese and the cultural revolution?' Those were the two biggest failures I had getting off the ground.
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