Noel Clarke Quotes

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

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.

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

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 like doing things that are too easy.

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”

'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.

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 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 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 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 think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

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

Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

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?

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

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