Noel Clarke Quotes

I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don’t make a commercial film, distributors can’t get behind it. If they don’t get behind it, the film doesn’t do well.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

I wouldn’t say that I’m a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn’t say that I’m brilliant at any.

I did ‘Kidulthood’ and ‘Adulthood,’ and that’s what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do ‘hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying ‘Yo Blood‘ and beating up others in the street.

I don’t think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn’t have me down. It’s definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don’t dwell on it.

I’m a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don’t deserve niceness. I’ll turn very quickly. But I’m pretty pleasant overall.

‘Pulp Fiction‘ blew my mind; beforehand, I’d watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that’s it. There is in that film, too, but it’s out of sequence.

I couldn’t tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

After ‘Kidulthood,’ I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn’t write women very well. I was very annoyed.

I don’t like doing things that are too easy.

When I wrote ‘Kidulthood,’ I didn’t even know there was going to be a ‘Kidulthood.’ I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I don’t think I’m egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I’m a black guy who‘s probably losing his hair. But I’m happy to play roles that I’m given, and I’m happy to play roles that I write.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they’re the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.

I’d always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I can’t always be making ‘British films.’ Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

I’m just who I am. I don’t try to change myself for other people.